How coding in Python is bad for you

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 10:58:14 EST 2017


On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 2:51 AM, Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
> <snip>
>> ... I teach JavaScript as well as Python, and I've seen some
>> pretty horrendous indentation flaws (examples available if people ask
>> privately, but I will anonymize them because I'm not here to shame
>> students) - but there have been nearly as many cases where the
>> indentation's fine and the bracket nesting isn't.
>
> Can I ask what editor(s) your students have available?  I ask because
> I've not given a moment's thought to indentation or what bracket matches
> what for decades due to having a helpful editor.
>

Quite a few, depending on which platform they're using. I'd say
Sublime is the most common choice.

ChrisA



More information about the Python-list mailing list