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   by bnmnetp 12y ago

   Great idea. In other parts of the book we discuss how Python implements lists and other data structures, so that would fit in nicely with that theme.
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   by bnmnetp 12y ago

   Good point. Although we do introduce the long way first. The reason we don't use a,b = b,a in our code is that it isn't very portable to other languages. We wrote this book as a second semester textbook. So most students are not
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   by bnmnetp 12y ago

   Thanks, I enjoy working on all aspects of this project. For anyone interested in helping us out you can find us on github.com/bnmnetp/runestone. I would love to have more contributors.
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   by bnmnetp 14y ago

   Thanks for the comments. I'm one of the authors of the book (Miller). Although I wouldn't say that the ADTs are strict ports from Java, I would say that because we teach Java in our next class that was definitely in the back of our heads.