> I've generally used IDLE as well. I think Vim gets in the way if you > don't have the reflexes. With older adults, there's often a strong > allegiance to a text editor and it's considered presumptuous for a > teacher to specify which one, unless there's a strong rationale for > using something special.
In a beginner's course, it's really helpful to have every student using the SAME text editor. Last year, some of my more experienced students were adamant about sticking with IDLE while the rest of us used Textpad. It was a little messy because some kids had a fake-DOS window open to access the interpreter while others were using the interpreter window in IDLE. Visual consistency from my projection to student desktops can help some students through difficult new concepts. I teach a little about vi (and pico/nano) in a unit about bash. I like that they'll be able to find vi(m) on just about any unix/linux/bsd machine they see from now until the end of computing. I'll give Crust/Alamode a look but probably won't include it in this rev of the diskimage though I might use something similar for the spring semester. Last year, instead of going to wxpython for GUI development, we went to CGI programming. The kids already had a sophisticated understanding of XHTML/CSS so they could make Python to generate XHTML code pretty quickly. There they learned about many conventional windows components via XHTML forms. Art, thanks for the support on SciTE, I'll let you know how it goes. Kevin _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
