Dear Spyder team, first let me say that I really like very much the Spyder IDE. We use it for teaching programming in high schools as a very user friendly alternative to Eclipse. Here are some ideas how to improve Spyder to fit the needs of this group of users even more: The variable table is an excellent tool to build up a mental model of variables and how their reference changes over time. It would be even more useful, if objects of user-written classes could be displayed. Maybe the value column can show attributes and their values and clicking on it would start up an ‘object card’ which is essentially again a variable explorer in a new window which displays attributes and methods. Methods could be envoked on this stage (as kind of editing objects). A look at the BlueJ java environment shows how useful this can be. Moreover, it would be helpful to have code templates for typical situations and the editor could bring out more clearly the structure of the code by shading blocks. Again, BlueJ does this in a very nice way. In the long run, of course, there are further more demanding wishes: - Python 3 - UML modeller - better integration of qt designer
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