I happen to believe that Python is an excellent language to start many beginners on. I happen to be on the Undergraduate Affairs committee for my University's Computer Science program, which is often tasked with picking the language for many first year classes.
Ours used to be in Pascal, but it was decided that Pascal was too out of date, as the latest books on pascal that anyone in a first year class could buy, were published around 12 years ago. Python on the other hand is fairly new, still quite frequently used (including the Google Apps Engine), and had the extra benefit of showing early results so that beginners could actually feel like they are making progress. It also has the benefit of being able to work well in a procedural or object oriented language.
The one thing that I hard about this (http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/12/05/google-launches-android-dev-phone/) was that the shipping charges were truly excessive. Shipping the G1 to Canada for instance, I was told would cost $200+ US.
They say that they have this challenge to all kinds of scientics, and physicists to test this machine to prove that it works the way they say it does.
But where to they put their ad? In a Science Journal? In a Science Magazine? No, they put it in The Economist. Oh ya, lots of scientists read the Economist. Could have anything to do with the fact that people looking to invest in something would read that magazine.
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I happen to believe that Python is an excellent language to start many beginners on. I happen to be on the Undergraduate Affairs committee for my University's Computer Science program, which is often tasked with picking the language for many first year classes. Ours used to be in Pascal, but it was decided that Pascal was too out of date, as the latest books on pascal that anyone in a first year class could buy, were published around 12 years ago. Python on the other hand is fairly new, still quite frequently used (including the Google Apps Engine), and had the extra benefit of showing early results so that beginners could actually feel like they are making progress. It also has the benefit of being able to work well in a procedural or object oriented language.
The one thing that I hard about this (http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/12/05/google-launches-android-dev-phone/) was that the shipping charges were truly excessive. Shipping the G1 to Canada for instance, I was told would cost $200+ US.
They say that they have this challenge to all kinds of scientics, and physicists to test this machine to prove that it works the way they say it does. But where to they put their ad? In a Science Journal? In a Science Magazine? No, they put it in The Economist. Oh ya, lots of scientists read the Economist. Could have anything to do with the fact that people looking to invest in something would read that magazine.