[Edu-sig] Thonny, a new IDE for teaching programming

[Al Sweigart]

How does it compare to Philip Guo's Python Tutor?
http://www.pythontutor.com/ I really like how this tool can trace forwards
and backwards through the program.

Also, less popular is a tool I wrote for visualizing how expressions get
evaluated. It's called ShowEval: http://inventwithpython.com/showeval/

(Repo at https://github.com/asweigart/showeval )

-Al

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:02 AM, Aivar Annamaa <aivar.annamaa at ut.ee> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've created a new free Python IDE which focusses on program animation.
> Eg. it can step through expression evaluation, it can visualize call stack
> etc. More info here: http://thonny.cs.ut.ee/
>
> You may find it useful if you're teaching Python to beginners. I'm
> teaching 1st year CS students in University of Tartu and I can say Thonny
> has made my job easier.
>
> I'd love to hear your feedback and comments!
>
> best regards,
> Aivar Annamaa
> University of Tartu
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