Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:12:07 +0000, Oscar Benjamin wrote:

> These types of problems are compounded by the fact that the current C
> course uses automated marking so a program that produces the correct
> output gets full marks even if it is terribly written and the student
> entirely misses the point

This suggests that even the lecturers can't read C, and so have got one 
of their post-grad students to write an automated tester so they don't 
have to.

Only-half-joking-ly y'rs, 


-- 
Steven