Python for beginners

E Shein - Communications of the ACM, 2015 - dl.acm.org
E Shein
Communications of the ACM, 2015dl.acm.org
Python for beginners Page 1 MARCH 2015 | VOL. 58 | NO. 3 | COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM
19 news overhead in getting to the point where people can start to write interesting programs; the
syntax is pretty straightforward,’’ observes John Guttag, professor of electrical engineering and
computer science at MIT, and the author of several books, including one about learning to
program in Python. In contrast to Java, which has a “fairly complicated syntax and fairly
complicated static semantics,” Python makes more sense for people who are writing small …
A survey found the language in use in introductory programming classes in the top U.S. computer science schools.
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