Re: [Edu-sig] Editors/IDEs for teaching

2018-07-03 Thread kirby urner
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Andre Roberge wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 3:59 PM kirby urner wrote: > >> >> I use Spyder in my adult beginner Python classes. I like the integrated >> REPL (not just a window to Terminal) and the I-Python console. >> > > > ​Looking at some old emails,

Re: [Edu-sig] Editors/IDEs for teaching

2018-07-03 Thread Wes Turner
Spyder has code cell support for evaluating a delimited block of code at a time: ```python #%% cell 1 print(1) # In[0]: (cell 2) print(2) ``` - Ctrl-Return -- Run cell - Shift-Return -- Run cell and advance $ conda install -y spyder You can export Jupyter notebooks to .py files with the

Re: [Edu-sig] Editors/IDEs for teaching

2018-07-03 Thread Nicholas H.Tollervey
On 03/07/18 15:27, Andre Roberge wrote: * Mu (https://codewith.mu/). Primarily intended for young learners and hobbyists. Nope. I'm the author of Mu. It's for beginner programmers of all levels (as it says so on the website). Beginner programmer is a "stage" not an age. ;-) The design

Re: [Edu-sig] Editors/IDEs for teaching

2018-07-03 Thread Andre Roberge
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:52 AM Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > On 03/07/18 15:27, Andre Roberge wrote: > > * Mu (https://codewith.mu/). Primarily intended for young learners and > > hobbyists. > > Nope. > > ​Thanks!​ > I'm the author of Mu. It's for beginner programmers of all levels (as it >

[Edu-sig] Editors/IDEs for teaching

2018-07-03 Thread Andre Roberge
Hi everyone, I'm compiling a list of available editors for Python designed specifically for teaching, with information about the primary targeted audiences and would welcome your comments and/or suggestions for additions or corrections. So far, I have Target audience (my own draft definition;

Re: [Edu-sig] Editors/IDEs for teaching

2018-07-03 Thread Nicholas H.Tollervey
On 03/07/18 16:04, Andre Roberge wrote: ​ I do agree with what you write ... but, at the same time, I've been struggling to define appropriate categories. Some software can be designed for use by (young) adult beginners but not for young children. (For example: anything that will rely

Re: [Edu-sig] Editors/IDEs for teaching

2018-07-03 Thread Andre Roberge
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 12:11 PM Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > On 03/07/18 16:04, Andre Roberge wrote: > > > > ​ I do agree with what you write ... but, at the same time, I've been > > struggling to define appropriate categories. Some software can be > > designed for use by (young) adult

Re: [Edu-sig] Editors/IDEs for teaching

2018-07-03 Thread Carl Karsten
> Mu bundles Python 3... I did not know that, and now I love it even more. Thank you!!! I do "intro to Python" workshops, and I *hate* the "setup environment" step; it chews up so much limited precious time. I've used mu for about 30 min about a month ago when I attended a 1 hour conference

Re: [Edu-sig] Editors/IDEs for teaching

2018-07-03 Thread Nicholas H.Tollervey
Thank you for your kind words! :-) Mu 1.0.final should be out in about a fortnight. N. On 03/07/18 16:29, Carl Karsten wrote: Mu bundles Python 3... I did not know that, and now I love it even more. Thank you!!! I do "intro to Python" workshops, and I *hate* the "setup environment" step;

[Edu-sig] CircuitPython+CPX = minimal setup to lean Python

2018-07-03 Thread Carl Karsten
As education enthusiasts, I highly recommend attending (or watching the video, I am going to give it extra attention) https://www.pyohio.org/2018/schedule/presentation/39/ Sunday 12:45 p.m.–2:45 p.m. in Suzanne Scharer """ CircuitPython is Python that runs on microcontrollers. It's designed for

Re: [Edu-sig] Editors/IDEs for teaching

2018-07-03 Thread Aivar Annamaa
Hi! I am author of Thonny. My initial target group was my students in our university's first programming course (CS 101 according to your taxonomy). I wanted an easy way to show them the exact meaning of main programming concepts. Thonny was later successfully used in several MOOC-s (both

Re: [Edu-sig] Editors/IDEs for teaching

2018-07-03 Thread kirby urner
I use Spyder in my adult beginner Python classes. I like the integrated REPL (not just a window to Terminal) and the I-Python console. Also, I'm a fan of the Anaconda distro of Python which makes it easy to jump into Jupyter Notebooks, an introductory topic in my courses. Given Jupyter grew out

Re: [Edu-sig] Editors/IDEs for teaching

2018-07-03 Thread Andre Roberge
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 3:59 PM kirby urner wrote: > > I use Spyder in my adult beginner Python classes. I like the integrated > REPL (not just a window to Terminal) and the I-Python console. > ​Looking at some old emails, about 3 years ago I had concluded that Spyder would have been my first