swcarpentry / python-second-language

Full-day lesson on Python as a second language.
https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-second-language/
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confusing translations #9

Open PBarmby opened 8 years ago

PBarmby commented 8 years ago

In my experience, 2 major sources of confusion for users of other languages are

So it would be good to discuss these at some point (possibly in the pandas section?)

tomhohenstein commented 8 years ago

@PBarmby - I think your second bullet point is well taken. I did find a quick reference to zero indexing on line 287 in _episodes/01-basics.md.

Locations are numbered from 0 rather than 1.

Maybe we could add a little more information there and then expand in another section