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As OP stated, the book is for beginners in Python, not in development. I don't think your remarks would apply to that group.
by poisonborz 6y ago
As OP stated, the book is for beginners in Python, not in development. I don't think your remarks would apply to that group.
- ghaff 6y agoThat's how I read it as well. That said, I think it's fair to note that anyone who has only ever used their computer for browsing, word processing, and gaming who gets dropped into most Introduction to X courses really has a whole (somewhat operating system and tools-dependent) course worth of material they probably need to go through first. I've seen the discussion boards of a couple nominally-intro MOOC courses filled with people utterly bewildered about basically how to use a computer for programming.
- dharmab 6y agoWeb IDEs are great for these intro-to-programming courses. Ideally the students get a couple of weeks of material on how to set up a local development environment later.