Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread memilanuk
Not a teacher here... but you might look @ Anaconda (http://continuum.io/downloads). Easy to download and install as a user, without requiring any kind of sysadmin privileges, on Windows, Mac and Linux. The full install may be overkill for what you need... but it comes with Spyder already a

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread calcpage
: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners Hi, I've been programming in python for 15 years now, always and only with NEdit. It has syntax-highlighting, tabs and enhanced whitespace toggleability ... all you need, and nothing else. It's part of e

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread Andrew Harrington
4G LTE smartphone > > > Original message > From: Charles Cossé > Date: 12/10/2014 10:14 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: Fernando Salamero > Cc: edu-sig@python.org > Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for > teaching beginners > > Hi, I've

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread calcpage
+console or IDE for teaching beginners Hi, I've been programming in python for 15 years now, always and only with NEdit. It has syntax-highlighting, tabs and enhanced whitespace toggleability ... all you need, and nothing else. It's part of every Linux distro that I'm aware of

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread Charles Cossé
Hi, I've been programming in python for 15 years now, always and only with NEdit. It has syntax-highlighting, tabs and enhanced whitespace toggleability ... all you need, and nothing else. It's part of every Linux distro that I'm aware of. Developed at Fermilab!! Good luck, Charles Cosse www.as

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread Fernando Salamero
I like (so my students) the amazing Ninja-IDE, with explicit PEP8 and python 3 tips. Version 3 is coming. Open source, programmed in python for python. http://ninja-ide.org/ > El 10/12/2014, a las 23:21, Vernon D. Cole escribió: > > I second the suggestion to use PyCharm. I have been using

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread Vernon D. Cole
I second the suggestion to use PyCharm. I have been using it commercially (and almost exclusively) for two years. The free version is very capable for any normal desktop projects, and the professional version is free for educational institutions or students. If has a few bad habits (mostly inheri

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread Laura Creighton
Will you be doing this in English, French, or both? However, make sure that what you use has adequate online documentation in both English and French (and ideally many more) so that people who mostly cannot learn from lectures, but badly need _something to read while they are working things out_ c

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread Andre Roberge
Hi Roberto, On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:14 PM, roberto wrote: > Why don't you try cloud.sagemath.com? or https://trinket.io/ > > Someone else replied to me off-list and suggested trinket.io. As far as I know, trinket is based on Skulpt which is an imcomplete version of Python 2. I really want to

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread calcpage
om my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: roberto Date: 12/10/2014 1:14 PM (GMT-05:00) To: "edu-sig@python.org" Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners Why don't you try cloud.sa

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread Kirby Urner
I agree that IDLE is quite usable once working properly which is pretty much never a problem with Windows distros but can be an issue when doing a from-scratch C-language compilation of Python with the Tk part added. Tk is after all a separate process in another language which Python controls or t

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread Andre Roberge
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Christian Mascher < christian.masc...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi Andre, > > > I would really like some advice based on practical experience teaching >> beginners. >> >> > I personally would stick with Idle. There was a time, when it was > problematic under MacOS bec

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread roberto
Why don't you try cloud.sagemath.com? or https://trinket.io/ They both let your students work at a distance and collaborate with you. Hope this helps. On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Christian Mascher wrote: > > Hi Andre, > > > I would really like some advice based on practical experience tea

Re: [Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread Christian Mascher
Hi Andre, I would really like some advice based on practical experience teaching beginners. I personally would stick with Idle. There was a time, when it was problematic under MacOS because tkinter was missing there - but those days are over. As an all-platform, _already (battery-) in

[Edu-sig] Recommendation for editor+console or IDE for teaching beginners

2014-12-10 Thread Andre Roberge
Hi everyone, I would really like some advice based on practical experience teaching beginners. Next year, I will be teaching an introductory course in programming using Python. The course is going to be taught asynchronously via distance education. I will be recording short videos that students