Teaching python to beginners

[William Park]

On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 06:24:10PM +0000, Deryk Barker wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with teaching Python as a *first*
> programming language.
> 
> I'm looking into the feasbility of this and would like to discuss it
> with anyone who has experience or thoughts in the area.

Well, I gave tutorial few month ago.  But, "students" already knew
C, APL, perl; so, that made my job easier.  As far as teaching as
first language, I would still would go for C.  Object oriented aspect
of python would only be appreciated after having gone through
something like C.

William Park