Re:The use of python. (Score 1)

When I graduated from high school and moved on to university, I found that my background in Turbo Pascal had prepared me very well for first year university programming courses. (Too well, in fact, I wound up getting bored and skipping class too much, but that's another story.) IMO, it isn't so much the specific language that's taught, so much as the principles you learn.

At the risk of sounding like a grandfather (if it was good enough for me, it should be good enough for Johnny), I don't see that Pascal is a poor choice for teaching newbies programming - although I must admit that my current field is not programming, and I have fallen way behind the field in terms of what's good and what isn't, etc.