[Pythonedu-wg] Subject: Re: A new, kid-friendly Python editor

[Ian Harcombe]

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> From: Ash Guy <ash at ashguy.com>
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> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:07:09 +1000
> Subject: Re: [Pythonedu-wg] A new, kid-friendly Python editor
> I’d make the argument that you should avoid autocomplete like the plague,
> but I take your point on making things easy— What about some kind of “Onion
> Skinning” feature where the rest of the next matched statement shows up
> dulled out in some way underneath the oncoming whitespace. That way you’d
> get the hinting, but the user would still need to make deliberate decisions
> and mental links to the actual python keywords.
>
> You could take this as far as you want— what about onion skinning out a
> whole hello world example for new users? (Maybe that doesn’t work, but it
> could be interesting to test and see!)
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> Just a thought.
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> Ash Guy.
> Serial Entrepreneur, Tech Junkie, Creative Thinker.
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Seems like a good thought to me, fwiw. I like the idea that the editor will
prompt/remind you of your choices but still allow/make you type them
yourself. It should really help them get the right vocab flowing for when
they're let "off the leash" (to continue a metaphor).

Teaching GCSE for the first time this year, and am really starting to
appreciate how useful all of the "Puppy" ideas I'm watching go past will be.

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Ian Harcombe
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