Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > In that case, my recommendation is to learn a good programmer's > editor, and let your students gain exposure to that. > > Emacs and Vim are the unchallenged masters here […] > > They aren't a small investment, though. […] it may be too much to > confront a middle-school student in limited class time. Maybe let the > class know they exist, at least. > > Short of those, I'd still recommend a community-owned, free-software, > highly flexible programmer's editor.
I have never used Atom <URL:https://atom.io/>, but it meets the criteria I would recommend. It is free software, community owned, has support for a broad variety of contemporary editing tasks, is cross-platform. On top of that it has advantages over Vim and Emacs: its terminology matches what today's computer users expect; it is written in and extensible with a commonly-used programming language; it UI is designed to match contemporary user expectations. The few reservations I have – it is not yet mature enough to have support for pretty much every editing tasks; it does not appear to have a text console mode (for use across an SSH link); it is presently dominated by a single corporation – should not stop you from presenting it to your students as a fine programmer's editor for their future. -- \ “Not using Microsoft products is like being a non-smoker 40 or | `\ 50 years ago: You can choose not to smoke, yourself, but it's | _o__) hard to avoid second-hand smoke.” —Michael Tiemann | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
