On Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 6:36:56 AM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: > There have been discussions, such as today on Idle-sig , about who uses > Idle and who we should design it for. If you use Idle in any way, or > know of or teach classes using Idle, please answer as many of the > questions below as you are willing, and as are appropriate > > Private answers are welcome. They will be deleted as soon as they are > tallied (without names). > > I realized that this list is a biased sample of the universe of people > who have studied Python at least, say, a month. But biased data should > be better than my current vague impressions. > > 0. Classes where Idle is used: > Where? > Level? > > Idle users: > > 1. Are you > grade school (1=12)? > undergraduate (Freshman-Senior)? > post-graduate (from whatever)? > > 2. Are you > beginner (1st class, maybe 2nd depending on intensity of first)? > post-beginner? > > 3. With respect to programming, are you > amateur (unpaid) > professional (paid for programming) > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy, Idle maintainer
I used idle to teach a 2nd year engineering course last sem It was a more pleasant experience than I expected One feature that would help teachers: It would be nice to (have setting to) auto-save the interaction window [Yeah I tried to see if I could do it by hand but could not find where] Useful for giving as handouts of the class So students rest easy and dont need to take 'literal' notes of the session I will now be teaching more advanced students and switching back to emacs -- python, C, and others -- so really no option to emacs. Not ideal at all but nothing else remotely comparable -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list