Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

[rusi]

On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 8:21:39 PM UTC+5:30, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> On 2013-12-17, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > I would really like to see good quality statistics about bugs
> > per program written in different languages. I expect that, for
> > all we like to make fun of COBOL, it probably has few bugs per
> > unit-of-useful-work-done than the equivalent written in C.

> I can't think of a reference, but I to recall that
> bugs-per-line-of-code is nearly constant; it is not language
> dependent. So, unscientifically, the more work you can get done
> in a line of code, then the fewer bugs you'll have per amount of
> work done.

Enter the (One-Liner) Dragon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4