[Edu-sig] Editors/IDEs for teaching

[Andre Roberge]

Hi everyone,

I'm compiling a list of available editors for Python designed specifically
for teaching, with information about the primary targeted audiences and
would welcome your comments and/or suggestions for additions or
corrections. So far, I have

Target audience (my own draft definition; feel free to improve upon this):

* young learners  (elementary and high school students)

* hobbyists - beginners of all ages learning on their own

* CS 100 course: elective course targeted at non CS (or even non STEM)
students. The focus is more on concepts, using Python as the practical tool
to learn these concepts, rather than learning the Pythonic idioms or
learning the effectiveness of various algorithms. For example, list
comprehensions would likely not be covered in such a course as it does not
add anything conceptually to an explicit for loop.

* CS 101 course: core course in CS meant as a requirement for future
courses. Some pythonic idioms and details about algorithms would likely be
covered.

Editors / IDEs :

* IDLE: included with Python. Intended for everyone.
* Mu (https://codewith.mu/). Primarily intended for young learners and
hobbyists.
* Thonny. (http://thonny.org/) I am guessing that it is primarily intended
for CS 101.
* Wing 101 (https://wingware.com/downloads/wingide-101) Primarily intended
for CS 101.
* PyCharm Edu (https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm-edu/) Primarily intended
for CS 101.

I am not looking for web-based solutions [otherwise, I would have had
included Reeborg's World ;-)] and do not want to include obsolete or no
longer maintained software (like rur-ple, the precursor to Reeborg's World.)

Best,

André
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