Teaching Python

[Martin Maney]

I was a Visual Basic programmer for a few months in 2002. It took me
almost a year to recover. It is vaguely object-oriented, but its
definition of objects are horribly warped; going to a genuine OO
language after VB is a complete nightmare.

'way late, as usual, but I can't resist pointing out that IME it's a
complete nightmare going the other way - coming to a project in VB
after having used C++ for some years (with some exposure to other,
purer OO languages, chiefly Smalltalk). I let myself get talked into
that once; now I know better. Actually, now I know better than to let
myself be talked into doing time in C++.