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Message: [QUOTE="rusi, post: 5099103"] Some views of mine (controversial!). Python is at least two things, a language and a culture. As a language its exceptionally dogma-neutral. You can do OO or FP, throwaway one-off scripts or long-term system building etc However as a culture it seems to prefer the OO style to the FP style. This is unfortunate given that OO is on the down and FP is on a rise. Some thoughts re OOP: [URL]http://blog.languager.org/2012/07/we-dont-need-no-ooooo-orientation-4.html[/URL] So my suggestion is use some rigorous FPL like Haskell to learn/teach programming. After that you can switch to python or some other realistic language. Note: I have some serious reservations regarding Haskell [URL]http://blog.languager.org/2012/08/functional-programming-philosophical.html[/URL] Nevertheless it seems to be the best there is at the moment. tl;dr: Haskell is in 2013 what Pascal was in 1970 -- good for programming pedagogy. [/QUOTE]