Python education survey

[Andrew Berg]

On 12/27/2011 11:59 AM, K Richard Pixley wrote:
> You'd do better to encourage eclipse, but setting that up isn't
> trivial either.
IIRC, all I had to do to set up PyDev was copy a URL to Eclipse's 
"Install New Software" wizard, and have Eclipse download and install it. 
Extra steps are needed if a different implementation of Python (e.g. 
Jython) is needed, but other than that, the user only needs to specify a 
couple options (e.g. Python grammar version) at project creation time. 
This assumes that Python is already installed, but why wouldn't it be?

> You could create your own distribution of eclipse, but
> then you have that "only useful for python" problem again.
AFAIK, Eclipse should always be good for Java unless you do some serious 
hacking.

> If students are going to go anywhere else after this class, they're
> going to need to either be able to learn to switch editors or find an
> editor they can use more generally.
There are a ton of editors that have syntax highlighting and other 
little features for many languages.

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