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Anyone teaching Python 2 now is years out of date. It's not your fault that the other teacher isn't staying current. As a teacher, I made the switch around 20
by xapata 6y ago
Anyone teaching Python 2 now is years out of date. It's not your fault that the other teacher isn't staying current. As a teacher, I made the switch around 2016 and I was slow to change.
While the Python core team made mistakes in community management, I wouldn't blame them in this case.
Back in high school, I volunteered to tutor math at a free summer camp for poor children. A professional high school teacher was also volunteering. I wound up tutoring her in math, so that she could teach the kids. Sometimes teachers need a little update.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI talked to her about it later. Without getting too far in the weeds, part of the issue is this browser environment we sometimes use, called Trinket.io. It seems to be very common in the educational space. The paid version of Trinket let's you use Python 3, but the free version forces you into this hybrid interpreter which attempts to run both kinds of code, and it does a bad job.
- xapata 6y agoI've been happy with repl.it as a browser environment.