I'm pretty sure we might be using Python this year...For the students that had it last year what version did you use?

We used 2.7 I think.

EDIT: 2.6, not 2.7. We couldn't use 3.0 because they changed a lot of stuff. And 3.0 had been out for a while when we took the course, I think. So I highly doubt they are going to do 3.0 with you guys.

it realy doesnt matter just use latest

Originally Posted by Leeoku

it realy doesnt matter just use latest

It actually does matter. The versions can vary quite a bit.

Originally Posted by MiniDragon

It actually does matter. The versions can vary quite a bit.

It makes more sense that the latest version would be used in the course and even if the course was a bit behind on current "affairs", it wouldn't really matter much at least at this point in time because you'd still be able to familiarize yourself with most of the syntax...

EDIT: I guess the important question about versions would really be whether to use Python 2.whatever or Python 3.whatever... for that I would ask an upper year... which is what the original question might have been. I suspect they used Python 2.

I seem to remember us using version 2.6, but not anything higher than version 3 as some syntax has changed

Yeah, most people had 2.6, some with 2.7, but you weren't supposed to use anything 3.0+, because the syntax was so different. Most of that was because the instructors were all taught to teach the course on 2.6/7, so having to relearn it all just because 3.0+ came out would just be silly.

I think they asked us to use 2.6 because at one point one of the labs required another program that had bugs with 2.7 depending on OS.