On 12/27/2011 11:59 AM, K Richard Pixley wrote:
You'd do better to encourage eclipse, but setting that up isn't
trivial either.
IIRC, all I had to do to set up PyDev was copy a URL to Eclipse's
"Install New Software" wizard, and have Eclipse download and install it.
Extra steps are needed if a different implementation of Python (e.g.
Jython) is needed, but other than that, the user only needs to specify a
couple options (e.g. Python grammar version) at project creation time.
This assumes that Python is already installed, but why wouldn't it be?
You could create your own distribution of eclipse, but
then you have that "only useful for python" problem again.
AFAIK, Eclipse should always be good for Java unless you do some serious
hacking.
If students are going to go anywhere else after this class, they're
going to need to either be able to learn to switch editors or find an
editor they can use more generally.
There are a ton of editors that have syntax highlighting and other
little features for many languages.
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