Python Learning

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Bill <BILL_NOSPAM at noway.net> wrote:
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't know about vtables as needing to be in ANY programming course.
>>> They're part of a "let's dive into the internals of C++" course. You
>>> certainly don't need them to understand how things work in Python,
>>> because they don't exist; and I'm doubtful that you need to explain
>>> them even to C++ programmers.
>>>
>> Then how are you going to explain dynamic_cast?
>>
>
> I wouldn't. I'd teach Python to beginning programmers. C++ is not a
> good first language.

And even for C++ programners, you can go a pretty long way without dynamic_cast.

ChrisA