On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 4:19 AM Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote: >> >> as an >> alternative to a text editor, it's an attractive nuisance. Yes, you >> can try things out and see the results instantly, AND you can save it, >> edit, rerun, etc; the cost is that debugging becomes a nightmare. > > > Remember that Jupyter has a pretty nice text editor (with syntax > highlighting! but no autocomplete or discovery... yet), and there's nothing > stopping you from teaching a student how to write a .py file in the Jupyter > interface and then import it in a cell. And then showing them how they can do > the same thing with ANY old text editor. >
Of course. But I'm not the primary instructor for most of them - I'm just the TA that they come to when they have questions. So most of the time, they haven't been using any-old-text-editor. Although I didn't know you could import a .py file into a cell. Will have to look into that; maybe that would help them hybridize. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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/CYEWWP7YDMNTXZL5EVN6HVJJSZRLPUUK/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
