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Episode 431: Ken Youens-Clark on Learning Python

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Python Language Features for Beginners

The fact that blocks are delineated by spaces and ortabs instead of brackets. I think also that's a nice thing that helps novices learn to programme in a structurat way, because it forces them to do things in a certain way. And i've become more enamored of strictly typed languages over the last couple of years. So you don't need to start programming with type annotations. But after you get to that point where you're like, "If only there would have been a way for me to have caught that" without it being a run time exception,. something that blows up when the programme's running. The idea of my gradually typing your code, which is

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