Re: your comment about statically typed languages.
The current trend in Education is to start with Python. But as someone involved in University education myself, I wonder if starting with Python makes it harder to then later motivate people to learn this stuff. If you've done Java first, then learning Python is a breeze. But if you've learned Python first, then learning Java is a total drag. (Presumably learning the first language is always a bit problematic for some)
I wonder how we motivate students to bother with statically typed languages (Java and C# are super important in the comercial world) if we start with something so simple as Python.
From my personal experience I made the switch from .Net(later Java) to Python and I worked with a legacy codebase where I saw patterns which were hard to grasp and a compiler would have definitivly complained.
OTOH I would like to see Go more in education. Although I dislike the language for $reasons, I clearly see the upsides of being elegant, fast to learn, general purpose and a nice take on structs and interfaces which mostly makes the student fall into the pit of success.
I know a lot of people are currently interested in Go. But from an educator's perspective I see little benefit in promoting it at this time. While it has some following in the commercial world its not huge (yet?). Check indeed.com for example and compare to others.
Also, from a linguistic perspective I think some of Go's omissions are important. I think students should be exposed to a full set of OO features. While Go may have its niche in the commercial world, I think a well grounded Python+Java+C developer should be able to pick it up.
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Re: your comment about statically typed languages.
The current trend in Education is to start with Python. But as someone involved in University education myself, I wonder if starting with Python makes it harder to then later motivate people to learn this stuff. If you've done Java first, then learning Python is a breeze. But if you've learned Python first, then learning Java is a total drag. (Presumably learning the first language is always a bit problematic for some)
I wonder how we motivate students to bother with statically typed languages (Java and C# are super important in the comercial world) if we start with something so simple as Python.
From my personal experience I made the switch from .Net(later Java) to Python and I worked with a legacy codebase where I saw patterns which were hard to grasp and a compiler would have definitivly complained.
OTOH I would like to see Go more in education. Although I dislike the language for $reasons, I clearly see the upsides of being elegant, fast to learn, general purpose and a nice take on structs and interfaces which mostly makes the student fall into the pit of success.
But I am going too offtopic 😉
I know a lot of people are currently interested in Go. But from an educator's perspective I see little benefit in promoting it at this time. While it has some following in the commercial world its not huge (yet?). Check indeed.com for example and compare to others.
Also, from a linguistic perspective I think some of Go's omissions are important. I think students should be exposed to a full set of OO features. While Go may have its niche in the commercial world, I think a well grounded Python+Java+C developer should be able to pick it up.