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by jasode
1740 days ago
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>They chose Python since it's essentially a free, open-source alternative to Matlab. Different domains of education had different reasons but some classes had nothing to do with Matlab. - The professor Gerry Sussman of the famous MIT 6.001 SICP class said they switched from Scheme to Python because (paraphrasing) it's more high-level with libraries to get immediate work done. (E.g. A class project to control a robot.) - Peter Norvig teaching Artificial Intelligence classes switched from Lisp to Python because he noticed his students kept getting stuck on Lisp syntax instead of progressing on the more important AI concepts. Switching to Python made teaching the class easier. One can google for their interviews on why they switched to Python. |
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