Talk:Coding Tutor

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Hackety hack is amazing. One of the most amazing things about it is its interactivity. I suggest that by going with C/C++, you will inevitably lose some of that immediate feedback. Python, on the other hand is made to work in a shell.

Besides, python is a much better language for beginners - with real power and expressiveness, it still keeps a simple, easy-to-read syntax. And there's less housekeeping - a C hello world is inevitably a majority of stuff that a beginner won't understand - a python "print 'hello world'" is much more gentle.

And one final argument - if you use python, it will work with my own proposed source-code translating thingy. What good is an amazing tutorial stuck in English, if the majority of XO users will speak other languages?

I could go on. Heck, the XO doesn't even ship with automake etc.

Honestly, I can't even imagine this coming out good in C, whereas with Python you could hope to rival Hackety Hack's sublimeness.

Homunq 17:00, 29 March 2008 (EDT)

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