New submission from Toby Donaldson <tjdonald...@gmail.com>: I've been using Idle to teach beginning programming to university students for the last 6 or 7 years. I've taught hundreds and hundreds of students, and the single biggest confusion with Idle is this:
"New Window" in the file menu is ambiguous Proposed fix: change "New Window" to "New File", or "New Program" Many beginners don't get the difference between a shell window and program window. I spend some time explaining the difference, and yet they see "New Window" and don't know if this means a shell window or program window. Obviously this is not an issue for non-beginners, or even for anyone willing to experiment for a minute or two, but it seems to me this is a small change that could be useful to beginners. Plus more precise menu options are usually a good thing in general. ---------- components: IDLE messages: 94064 nosy: tjd severity: normal status: open title: Idle File Menu Option Improvement type: feature request versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7136> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com