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I'm surprised I haven't seen this on planetpython yet...
...an emerging consensus in the scripting community holds that Python is the right solution for freshman programming. Ruby would also be a defensible choice.
(emphasis mine). Originally found via Lambda the Ultimate, and also passed onto me by Rich Enbody.
In other news, there are some rumors coming out of the intro CS course (CSE 231/232) here at Michigan State that the switch to Python from C++ for the first term, 231, didn't affect the students' performance in the follow-on course, 232. That is, students performed equally well on the 232 final independently of whether or not they'd had Python or C++ in 231. I had hoped for an improvement in the scores, but at least it's not a decline!
--titus
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