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Brad Miller is an Associate Professor of computer science at Luther College in Decorah Iowa. He is also the founder of Runestone Interactive, an open source project for creating and publishing interactive textbooks.
Great idea. In other parts of the book we discuss how Python implements lists and other data structures, so that would fit in nicely with that theme.
Good point. Although we do introduce the long way first. The reason we don't use a,b = b,a in our code is that it isn't very portable to other languages. We wrote this book as a second semester textbook. So most…
Thanks, I enjoy working on all aspects of this project. For anyone interested in helping us out you can find us on github.com/bnmnetp/runestone. I would love to have more contributors.
Thanks for the comments. I'm one of the authors of the book (Miller). Although I wouldn't say that the ADTs are strict ports from Java, I would say that because we teach Java in our next class that was definitely in the…