Python is the *worst* language to teach people with. Students get completely lost in all the string helper functions. You should have to write these at least once.
True. Don't know why people insist to teach python to beginners. Do they really expect beginners' to read the python language reference manual and to understand it. (Oh wait you are supposed to read the incomplete "tutorial" first)
And there's so many "means of combination"! Basically inconsistent and ugly.
Scheme would be a much much easier language to teach beginners. I'll probably need 15 min to teach the someone basics of Scheme.
js is probably worse but you know what I mean.