You have a 10 year old coding colleague?
An important part of school is learning how to learn. It is a constant struggle with pupils to get them to actually think instead of googling for an answer.
Sometimes it feels a bit like I am a grumpy oldie telling them things like _in my day we had to look things up in books instead of using Google!_ but most of the time it’s valuable in and of itself to go through things from first principles.
(The sensehat bug was a case in point.)
As far as source code is concerned, it turned out to be quite tractable to follow the Python source code at least far enough to find the timsort.txt document.
If any of these kids go on to have technical careers, there will be plenty enough time for googling answers later on in life. Hopefully some of them will be writing the answers too.
No one in tech support believed me. No one was willing to help me. They told me to make a new account.
I've done my best not to buy from Amazon since.
Please don't be hostile to users.
Possibly after you provide some kind of validation like the last few digits of credit card tied to that account or something?
I always _try_ to show how one can answer problems from first principles before resorting to “go look it up on stack overflow”.
It boosts ones sense of usefulness as a teacher if one can occasionally give more in depth answers as teachable moments.
For one thing, demonstrating deeper understand is how you score high marks in exams.
Open up Python's source code and check - this is first principles-first hand.
As a matter of fact I am going to go as far as saying that reading source code is the _only_ way to actually be any good in software engineering because it's the only source of truth that never gets out of sync with the de-facto.
Did you expect to find a blog post about it (you can find it on the first page of Google search I mentioned)? Or a YouTube video (didn't pay attention to that)? Books are reasonably good but usually get out of sync quite fast.
And going back to first principles: the reason most of the literature may not mention what sorting algorithm Python uses is because a) it's irrelevant as a first principle knowledge b) it gets quickly out of sync.