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Re: Coding in jython

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Originally Posted by FRC4ME View Post
Not that I'd use it, personally; I don't see how Python makes "explaining coding" to new programmers easier than any other language, contrary to popular opinion.
Python is very close to pseudo-code (and if that means that we get close-to-pseudo-code-but-actually-work-examples in Python instead of BASIC, I'm not complaining). This makes it fairly easy to understand what the code is doing, without having a ton of experience with coding.

However, I do feel that using high-level languages and not having to deal with the low-level stuff is something you can only do properly after you are capable of actually doing that stuff yourself.
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