On 02/01/2011 03:05 PM, rantingrick wrote: > On Feb 1, 1:35 pm, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: >> On 1/31/2011 2:17 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote: >> >>> It certainly would be interesting to see a fresh approach to IDLE... >> >> The future of "playing with Python" is probably Python in a browser >> window, of which there are several implementations. > > Hello John, > > I found skulpt which looks rather interesting. > > http://www.skulpt.org/ > > Why do we not have a version of this at python.org so people can get a > feel for python right away. Ruby has that "Learn Ruby in 20 Minutes" > thing and so should we. > > Do you have any links to projects such as this one that you like to > share, John? >
http://people.csail.mit.edu/pgbovine/python/ Not quite an interpreter, and certainly has its limits, for example, it will only let you run so many steps before not letting you go on. I think it's a decent learning tool, but the visualisation is what makes it shine, IMO. That version uses python 2.5, there is also a version that uses python 3.1: http://netserv.ict.ru.ac.za/python3_viz/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list