I finally taught a full week course with PyCharm. There were things I liked
and things I didn't like. It seems the other main contender is Spyder.

What I *want* is RStudio for python. RStudio is very well thought out for
providing the necessary functionality for beginning users (easy / obvious
R-markdown, git, unit test integration).

I've started an issue here on "the best IDE" for what will be the Berkeley
Common Environment (BCE) editor:

https://github.com/dlab-berkeley/collaboratool/issues/82

If anyone would like to chime in on this, I'd be most grateful!

[Note - we already ship requirements for the IPython notebook, so that's
out of scope.]

It's a medium term goal to interface with the Ubuntu Science folks around
our choices for BCE and come up with a shared set of practices / packages
for an Ubuntu "science" VM. Ideally, that will be of use to Software
Carpentry as well!

-- 
Dav Clark
Data Scientist
UC Berkeley D-Lab
dlab.berkeley.edu
510-664-7000
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