Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

[Mark Lawrence]

On 11/12/2013 15:41, rusi wrote:
>
> When the ten becomes ten-thousand, written by a nut who's left you with
> code whose semantics is dependent on weird dependencies and combinatorial
> paths through the code you start wishing that
>

... he'd not been a Led Zeppelin fan, whereby every 
variable/module/function name was based on a song title/album 
name/lyric.  Thankfully not on my project, it was a mate's.  Code ended 
up in small, round filing cabinet.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence