> 2) It is actually surprisingly difficult to teach object oriented programming in Python, since most simple problems are much more easily solved in a functiona

> 2) It is actually surprisingly difficult to teach object oriented programming in Python, since most simple problems are much more easily solved in a functional manner than with classes. That's actually a good thing. I'm afraid too many people learn programming early on with e.g. Java and end believing programming equates defining classes and mutating objects. I've worked with people with such background (actually, I routinely do), and it's not pretty. I notice a difficulty in these people to grasp fundamentals, like data structures, idempotency and high-order functions, which leads to awful bad practices.