Thonny: A hassle-free Python micro-IDE

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Post by nine_k » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 5:29 PM UTC

Thonny: A hassle-free Python micro-IDE
thonny.org

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Post by throwawaybutwhy » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 6:06 PM UTC

A neat teaching environment with visual AST walkthroughs. Having inspection/reflection facilities built into the standard library of a programming language is a boon we rarely appreciate.

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Post by Naac » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 6:21 PM UTC

The debugger looks neat. Would be nice to have the same micro-IDE for Go, Rust, Ruby, etc. Something like the Jetbrains tools, but open source.

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Post by mahathu » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 6:28 PM UTC

Just by the screenshot, does this remind anyone else of R Studio?

I'm a psychology major and working as a "student tutor", which in my case means helping lower year students work with R for statistical analysis. A lot of them are struggling, but for the ones that aren't and show further interest beyond R, I might recommend this IDE after looking into it more!

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Post by eitland » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 6:36 PM UTC

Naac wrote: post #3

The debugger looks neat. Would be nice to have the same micro-IDE for Go, Rust, Ruby, etc. Something like the Jetbrains tools, but open source.

Fun fact: the core of Jetbrains IntelliJ is a very capable real, extensible open source IDE that they've released themselves.

I suspect (but I'm not sure) that the rest of their desktop products are built on top of that.

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Post by joshlk » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 6:46 PM UTC

Looks similar to Spyder: https://www.spyder-ide.org/

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Post by muad_kyrlach » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 7:08 PM UTC

No disrespect intended, but why is this needed? VScode is free, cross-platform, extremely easy to use, and you can run jupyter notebooks in it. I can't imagine telling someone to start python and not starting them in a notebook.

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Post by muad_kyrlach » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 7:09 PM UTC

eitland wrote: post #5

Naac wrote: post #3

The debugger looks neat. Would be nice to have the same micro-IDE for Go, Rust, Ruby, etc. Something like the Jetbrains tools, but open source.

Fun fact: the core of Jetbrains IntelliJ is a very capable real, extensible open source IDE that they've released themselves. I suspect (but I'm not sure) that the rest of their desktop products are built on top of that.

Sounds a lot like eclipse of yore...

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Post by thom » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 7:15 PM UTC

I've used this in the past with my son to teach him simple stuff. Would be nice if it somehow had integrated docs though, at which point it would be roughly up to speed with QuickBasic in the 80s.

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Post by Adisuki » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 7:25 PM UTC

mahathu wrote: post #4

Just by the screenshot, does this remind anyone else of R Studio? I'm a psychology major and working as a "student tutor", which in my case means helping lower year students work with R for statistical analysis. A lot of them are struggling, but for the ones that aren't and show further interest beyond R, I might recommend this IDE after looking into it more!

Didn't use RStudio for a while, but I find Spyter to be more similar.