[PSF-Community] Research on teaching Python vs. other languages?

[Don Sheu]

Hi Ned, Philip Guo prof of CS at U of Rochester wrote this over the
popularity of Python as an intro language.

http://m.cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-the-most-popular-introductory-teaching-language-at-top-us-universities/fulltext
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 1:07 PM Harsh Dattani <dattaniharsh12 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Nicholas,
>
> Thanku for great book. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Harsh Dattani
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 1:34 AM Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll at ntoll.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 27/10/15 20:02, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>> > A friend at a CS department is advocating to switch to Python as the
>> > teaching language rather than Java.  Some of his peers would like some
>> > evidence (research?) that Python is better-suited as a first language.
>> > Anyone have links to such a thing?
>> >
>> > --Ned.
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>> Not wishing to blow my own trumpet here... but I wrote "Python in
>> Education" (a free download from O'Reilly) for precisely a moment like
>> this!
>>
>> http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/python-in-education.csp
>>
>> It's not research, more a manifesto. It's not very long and shouldn't
>> take much more than 30 minutes to read cover-to-cover.
>>
>> Happy to answer questions.
>>
>> N.
>>
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