[PyAR2] C++ vs. Python as teaching tool

[Chad Cooper]

My favorite 4 lines of Python -  sending email (in its rawest form)

 

import smtplib

server = smtplib.SMTP(email_server_ip)

server.sendmail(from, to, msg)

server.quit()

 

It still amazes me that you can send emails with that little bit 'o
code....

 

chad!

 

 

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From: pyar2-bounces at python.org [mailto:pyar2-bounces at python.org] On
Behalf Of W W
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:50 PM
To: pyar2 at python.org
Subject: Re: [PyAR2] C++ vs. Python as teaching tool

 

Okay so I'm not sure why it sent way before I was ready... I guess gmail
thought it was funny or something.

Anyhow, we didn't get to any programming, just flow-chart. The lab (2
hours) will be spent writing a program that took me about 5 minutes in
python. 

      1 name = raw_input('Enter Employee Name:')
      2 hours = int(raw_input('Enter Employee Hours Worked:'))
      3 wage = float(raw_input('Enter Employee Wages:'))
      4 print name, 'earned $' + str(wage*hours) 

Four lines. I don't even think I'll be able to write a program that does
/nothing/ in c++ with four lines.

MMmmm, python!

On Jan 15, 2008 1:40 PM, W W < srilyk at gmail.com
<mailto:srilyk at gmail.com> > wrote:

So...
I'm a student at UCA, taking my "Computer Science I" (read: coast class
for anyone who's written a program). 

They use C++ as the CSCI I and II language. I've become an avid... oh I
don't know what you call us python fans, but I've been one for quite a
while now. But this just took the lesson home even further. 

Today for the in-class lesson  

-- 
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called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly:
every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its
ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. - Primo Levi 




-- 
To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being
called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly:
every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its
ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. - Primo Levi 


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