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Teaching C++ as a first language feels like a surefire way to embed bad habits to be unlearned once you get to the point of knowing what a `std::unique_ptr` is... but I just realized I'm also describing C.

Fuck.

I mean, at least you're not teaching them the conceptual dead end of classes.

firecall2• 2 years ago

So it's not just me! ;-)

I do not understand the love of Python.

Generally I assume it's just me and I must be missing something.

If nothing else I cannot abide the four-spaces indentation standard and the short line lengths.

Why waste so much space!

I read right to left, and I can read long lines of code just fine!

I'm forever scrolling up and down in Django code and losing my place!

PrivateButts2• 2 years ago

I like to write my Python in a vertical monitor, it does reinforce keeping your lines short. There's always going to be examples where you just need to have that one line of arcane garbage, but for the most part I find that I can scan through a Python file much faster since I don't have to disect each line.

The point is to emphasize readability but the truth is that readability is pretty subjective. To each their own syntax, I guess.

cxr6• 2 years ago

Not at all what I was getting at. Most of the complaints here are trifling and/or matters of taste. There are good reasons to disfavor Python, but you have only provided bad ones.

catchnear43216• 2 years ago

_________ does (_______ and) the world at large a disservice.

what a flexible template.

execat• 2 years ago

Be kind. Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

westurner2• 2 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115099 :

JupyterLite, datasette-lite, and the Pyodide plugin for vscode.dev ship with Pyodide's WASM compilation of CPython and SciPy Stack / PyData tools.

Does this work in vscode.dev, in a Chrome or Edge browser?

westurner2• 2 years ago

But can students test and/or grade their own work using their own CPU? ; OtterGrader -> Canvas, nbgrader,: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37981190

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