I don't think the learner would appreciate the subtleties, and I don't agree that they'll learn anything from it. I can reinforce each lesson/problem you're de

I don't think the learner would appreciate the subtleties, and I don't agree that they'll learn anything from it. I can reinforce each lesson/problem you're describing one by one through the exercises, but a new person simply wouldn't know good code if it slapped them in the face. that is my point: your readers might not understand everything you're doing, so they're just going to copy and paste parts of it into their new projects. if you give them sloppy code to learn from, they're going to copy that sloppiness into their code that makes its way into the real world. there are a lot of things in c that new programmers have to be especially careful about that aren't relevant to python.