Python advocacy ... HELP!

[Tim Rowe]

2008/12/4 Michael_D_G <michaeldg at gmail.com>:
>
> I am a faculty member of a cs department. We currently teach C++ in
> our intro to programming course. I am teaching this class and it seems
> to me that we would be much better served teaching python in the intro
> course, C++ for Data structures, as we do now, and Java in object
> oriented programming, as we do now.
> Some of my colleagues agree with me but some still see python as a
> niche language and don't understand
> how we could teach anything beyond C, C++ or Java.

Try asking "Are we teaching computer science, so that the students
will be able to cope with whatever they meet once they graduate, or
are we teaching computer programming, in a couple of specific
languages, so that the students will be completely unprepared if they
meet anything else?"

-- 
Tim Rowe