[Idle-dev] IDLE: Integrated Development and Learning Environment?

[Guido van Rossum]

I like it. Though of course it's really named after Eric Idle. :-)

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> I propose that IDLE be renamed or at least viewed as a acronym for
> "Integrated Development and Learning Environment".  (See below for
> history.) The specific change would be to make the first line of idle.rst
> and derivatives read (something like) "IDLE is an Integrated Development
> and Learning Environment for Python, writen in Python with the tkinter GUI
> package."
>
> Besides making 'IDLE' a proper acronym, this would better express what
> IDLE is meant to be, at least now.  A year ago, for instance, we added
> 'Turtle Demo' to the IDLE menu for instructional, rather than program
> development purposes.
>
> For another example, Mark and I hope to improve visualization of a program
> in action by adding a slowed-down run mode that highlights source lines
> (just as in manual mode now).  In other words, slideshow-like intelligent
> auto-stepping. https://bugs.python.org/issue25146
> To me, this is as much for learning as for development of a specific
> program.  I think it would work well with Turtle demos and algorithm
> visualization demos.
>
> The old version of README.txt (before the change a couple of days ago)
> starts "IDLE is Python's Tkinter-based Integrated DeveLopment
> Environment."  Note the capital 'L' in 'DeveLopement'.
>
> help.txt and the derived idle.rst and help.html start "IDLE is the Python
> IDE built with the tkinter GUI toolkit.
>
> --
> Terry Jan Reedy
>
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