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First, braces and semicolons are not silly. They are just a different form of syntax than indentation. (And I say that as a Pythonista of many years, who also l
by vram22 11y ago
First, braces and semicolons are not silly. They are just a different form of syntax than indentation. (And I say that as a Pythonista of many years, who also learned and then used C a lot before learning Python.)
Second, your point may (or not) be correct, but it is at best tangentially related to the point I was replying to, or to mine.
- na85 11y agoI don't think it's tangentially related at all. The cognitive load of trying to program for the first time is quite high. If the student doesn't have to focus on remembering whether or not you need a semicolon or a colon on switch statement cases, they can focus more on actually grokking the process of translating thoughts and algorithms to code.