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

[Chris Angelico]

From: Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>

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

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