最近Python又火了一把,一是我大山东省小学六年级的教材中加入了Python的内容;二是从2018年起,Python也将成为浙江高考的内容之一;三是计算机二级考试加入了Python科目。
早先常常看到新闻,国外4-5岁的小孩开发APP,给MM开发游戏之类的。可以看到,国外对小孩编程的教育还是比较早的,通常也会使用python来编程,因为它简洁易用。亚马逊上早早的就有了Python for kids和Python Bytes: An ABC Introduction to Programming for Toddlers系列面向小孩编程的丛书。Andrew Ng**9月14在Quora上对问题(I have a toddler. How should she prepare herself for the job market 15 years from now in the world of AI? Should I teach her Python as soon as she is willing to learn?)回答到”Yes, do teach her to code. More importantly, cultivate in her the ability to **keep learning.”,后面说”I think almost everyone should learn to code in the same way that almost everyone should learn to read/write.” 不过在这个回答里面,并没看到ANdrew Ng说的自己小孩一旦会说话就要学编程。不过会加减运算应该就可以编程了。
Python是Guido van Rossum在1989年为了打发无聊的圣诞节 (假期少,也是我们缺少创造力的一个原因)时开始编写的,到1991年第一个版本正式释放,其设计正是顺应了计算机的快速发展,希望能有更易于编写的语言。名字来源于英国肥皂剧《Monty