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Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours by greyhair on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:50PM (#25087310)
There is nothing wrong with teaching Python as an introduction to programming methods and data, then diving deeper. My son started with Python in his Junior year of high school and as a senior is now learning Java.

It is just top down learning, instead of bottom up. For programming, I think either works.

I just happened to learn the other direction because of the year (early 1980s). On CP/M, you had a macro assembler right there, and it took me a while to get my hands on a Basic interpreter.

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Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours by cutler on Friday November 13, 2020 @06:04PM (#25088618)
My university course in 1980 started with Pascal and Fortran along with Niklaus Wirth's "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
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Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours by squarefoot on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:48PM (#25089604)
Excellent book! Although written with Pascal in mind, it became really useful to me. Always brought it at work along with the K&R 2nd Ed. and the famous TCP/IP networking book by W. Richard Stevens.
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