文件名称：How to think like a Computer Scientist
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How to think like a
How and why I came to use Python In 1999, the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science exam was given in C++ for the ˉrst time. As in many high schools throughout the country, the decision to change languages had a direct impact on the computer science curriculum at Yorktown High School in Arlington, Virginia, where I teach. Up to this point, Pascal was the language of instruction in both our ˉrst-year and AP courses. In keeping with past practice of giving students two years of exposure to the same language, we made the decision to switch to C++ in the ˉrst-year course for the 1997-98 school year so that we would be in step with the College Board's change for the AP course the following year. Two years later, I was convinced that C++ was a poor choice to use for in- troducing students to computer science. While it is certainly a very powerful programming language, it is also an extremely di±cult language to learn and teach. I found myself constantly ˉghtin…