#Python is a great language to teach in CS beginners' courses.
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Replying to @ralphholz
Pfft. JavaScript is all you need to teach all CS concepts.
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Replying to @ralphholz
seriously, with ECMAscript 6.0, anything "functional" programming concepts can be taught in JavaScript
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Replying to @ErrataRob @ralphholz
this is actually how I learned to program. started writing js in a curly-braces-language imperative style since...
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...I'd had a little C exp as a kid, after I got comfortable with that started replacing control flow statements...
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...with expressions, stopped writing loops in favor of recursion/hofs, pretended everything was single-assignment, etc
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like 6mos after I started I picked up erlang and was like "oh this all I makes sense I already write js like this!"
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