Per some thread in the Philippines I'm following, a guy teaching new users using 3.1 in pure IDLE is frustrating finding that frustrating, too much crashing.
I've heard that before, but haven't encountered much yet, testing on Win7 and Ubuntu 9.10 these days. Wing101 and most other IDEs (e.g. iPython) with live shell are not sporting 3.x yet. I've got Eclipse + pydev but isn't that overblown for just getting one's feet wet? If I do that class at PSU in July, I'll need to give the lab assistant my preferred configuration. That's always been 2.x + IDLE + Vpython + POV-Ray, but I'm playing with doing straight 3.x and keeping it core Python, fewer bells and whistles? However, pure terminal seems too austere, and just a text editor with no shell is wasting the big advantage of REPL. What, you're running 3.1 inside emacs? How is that working out for ya? Enrollment up or down? Reassuring were those answers suggesting changing security settings, as half the time what's messing up IDLE is the firewall caring too much about the loop back. Anyway, I'd be interested to know what 3.x classrooms go with, especially if not with IDLE, ditto 2.x classrooms. Some have said Sage. Kirby ** http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2010/02/small-steps.html _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig