On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Greg Wilson wrote:
> I'm basing my claim on the kind
> of errors students in my course make. Even after being shown half-a-dozen
> examples of Python for loops, many of them write:
>
> for i in someSequence:
> print someSequence[i]
>
> in their first exercise.
Amazing (to me). Thank you for this data point; it's news to me.
I don't know what that means we should do, though. We can't break
the way existing loops work.
What would make for-loops easier to present, given this experience?
-- ?!ng
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