There used to be quite a number of languages designed for teaching - BASIC was one (designed by, amongst others, a nun), and Pascal was another. Universities and schools seem to have universally ditched them all in favour of Python.
Took vows in 1940, and while doing a PhD - the first woman to get one in Comp Sci - ended up in Dartmouth College, implementing the first version of BASIC.
There used to be quite a number of languages designed for teaching - BASIC was one (designed by, amongst others, a nun), and Pascal was another. Universities and schools seem to have universally ditched them all in favour of Python.
Sauce for the nun thing?
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller
Took vows in 1940, and while doing a PhD - the first woman to get one in Comp Sci - ended up in Dartmouth College, implementing the first version of BASIC.
Wow, I didn't expect to find a Sr. Keller reference on DEV!
I went to Clarke, where she founded the Computer Science department (and there's a building named after here there now).
Lol a nerdy nun, thanks for thr fact!