On 20 December 2011 13:51, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Students may not be experienced with the command-line and may be > running Windows, Linux, or Macs. Ideally, the tool or IDE will be > easy to install and configure (startup directory, path, associated > with a particular version of Python etc).
I tutor people (usually fellow students) in programming occasionally, and I've always recommended a simple text editor and a command line (this correlates with most languages, not just Python). My personal set up (using Linux) is vim (with line numbers and syntax highlighting) + shell, no matter which language I'm working with. However for people I'm tutoring, particularly if they're new to programming in general and would find vim intimidating, I recommend gedit (for Linux) or Notepad++ (for Windows), executing/compiling from the command line. As long as the text editor has line numbers and syntax highlighting it's sufficient in my book. I don't like obfuscating what's going on in the background (i.e. interacting with the Python/C/<insert language here> interpreter/compiler/whatever) with a fancy IDE. However that is my personal (strong) opinion. Hope that helps. -- Ashton Fagg E-mail: ash...@fagg.id.au Web: http://www.fagg.id.au/~ashton/ Keep calm and call Batman. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
