> That's not how Python works so trying to map it onto value/reference categories actually leads you astray You cannot teach physics to five year olds by, for

> That's not how Python works so trying to map it onto value/reference categories actually leads you astray You cannot teach physics to five year olds by, for example, starting with Euler's equations. Python doesn't work the same way as C, sure. But it works fine enough to get a feeling for how something "might" work. Then when they move on to another language, just as graduating to a harder class, you might have to un-learn some of the things to learn how it's really done.