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I'd probably go for C or C++ if you're teaching data structures. It can be helpful when pointers and memory layout are right there in front of you, and not obsc

• lucb1e 12y ago
  > I'd probably go for C or C++ if you're teaching data structures. Hmm perhaps if you are interested in the technical working of a data structure, but even if you use Python you'll have to mind your memory and CPU usage. They have to implement things like the traveling salesman problem and get the correct answer to a reasonable number of cities. Python is slower than machine code by definition, but not so much that it becomes much harder to do the same calculation. They have to think of speed regardless of the language, and doing that is much easier when you pass around lists instead of pointers to pointers of doubles (double * *, added spaces to avoid markdown).