Yesterday, Philip Guo made the claim that Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities on the Communications of the ACM blog. I came across this information via Planet Python’s redistribution of Vasudev Ram’s blog post on the subject.
If this is true, then I think this is really cool. Python is easy to learn and quite capable of most programming tasks. I’ve been using it for over 8 years now in all kinds of settings and Python has almost always come through for me. Anyway, check out the article and feel free to leave some feedback.