Python for beginners or not? [was Re: syntax difference]

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 2:23 AM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
<arj.python at gmail.com> wrote:
> Python is rightly called executable pseudocode. i appreciated the fact that
> you can go on wikipaedia, find the pseudocode of algorithms remove curly
> braces and replace by py's more powerful  syntax and poof, suddenly it
> becomes too easy.

My pseudocode and Python code look extremely similar, but that's
partly *because* I know Python. But I do periodically have JavaScript
students ask me "Is that Python?" when what I've written is
pseudocode.

ChrisA