On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 10:48:26AM -0400, Ricky Teachey wrote: > I agree it is more a clash of learning paths/training. I started out-- with > ZERO knowledge-- in 2014 just before Jupyter started to be popular, and the > more I have used it (as well as VSCode and Pycharm), the more I have found > myself thinking "OH MAN-- if I had had THIS when I was learning, I would > have learned so much faster with these code/feature discovery tools". > > Notebooks in particular-- more than IDEs, I think-- are changing the way > people learn. if I were teaching someone new today, I'd have them use > Jupyter right away, probably not the repl.
I think Smalltalk and Lisp had similar environments. Also the tradeoffs of "living in the environment" vs. "knowing the code base by reading and maintaining a mental map of files and documentation" are well known. The latter is probably required for larger code bases. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/7ITNDOUZD4677325GIWOMEJULIKVHZX5/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
