Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

[David Combs]

In article <mailman.4286.1387291924.18130.python-list at python.org>,
Neil Cerutti  <neilc at norwich.edu> wrote:
>On 2013-12-17, Steven D'Aprano
><steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> 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.
>
>-- 
>Neil Cerutti
>

Makes no sense to me.

I can't imagine that errors per 100 lines is anywhere
near as high with a language that has garbage collection
and type checking as with one that has neither.

David