New Python implementation

[Igor Korot]

Hi,



On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 8:15 PM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.python at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings list,
>
> > Even if Python is my choice language for personal projects, I am not
> certain it
> is the right language to use in a classroom context.
>
> This sums the view of most teachers in my country. In here for A level
> at Cambridge for Computer Studies you can choose either Java, or VB or
> Python
>
> The teachers' logic seems to tell them that VB is the simplest of all and
> more fitted for students. Since we organise the local Python usergroup
> <https://www.pymug.com>,
> we have been encouraging the adoption of Python. This happens from
> experience when teachers think for students, they think student will think
> like that etc
>

How old are the teachers?
And is it for school or university?


Thank you.


> The way schools examinations are set up, learning  programming is a bore.
> Programming requires experimentation and projects. The students must be
> permitted to explore the wide deep sea that is Python. On one of my
> projects
> on Github, i have a toy language, someone from Slovakia (14 years old)
> built
> an IDE for it, what was needed was only guidance where he was stuck.
>
> The hurdle with Python if any is the setting up and getting the command
> 'python'
> to appear in the terminal, which is very easy to get up and running
> nowadays.
>
> When i was in high school, i did not take Computer Studies, but was
> learning programming
> on my own, including Python. The irony is that my friends who were learning
> Python
> got disgusted with it. Loops and functions turned out to be hard for them.
> That's because
> learning for the exam makes you learn the language close to theory. Some
> commandline
> stuffs and some numbers stuffs surely is not exiting. Mastery comes with
> projects, exciting ones.
> Then whatever the syllabus requires becomes easy. It's a means to an end
> rather than the end
> in itself.
>
> The teachers' reaction is a reaction to the design of the syllabus. The
> folks seem to think that let's
> water it down to a very theoretical approach, strike out practise, strike
> out the fun out of it and
> sure the students will find it easier. Since effort is disliked by humans,
> less effort in learning programming
> will make students happy.
>
> Then, if it was no Python at that time, it might be no Python for life.
> With that mindset ongoing,
> those students think they know Python, they studied it, but they missed the
> whole thing. Forest,
> trees and leaves. They know only the color of the sign board leading to the
> place.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
> about <https://compileralchemy.github.io/> | blog
> <https://www.pythonkitchen.com>
> github <https://github.com/Abdur-RahmaanJ>
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