[Pdxpw-staff] notes on editor choice

[Selena Deckelmann]

Re: licensing costs -- this is the type of thing that we could
fundraise for, IMO. Given that we're also engaging in a non-profit
endeavor, with some careful maneuvering I'll bet that we could get a
substantial discount for a "site license" for the tool.

I know one issue in the past has been a desire for using FOSS tools.
But our use of CodingBat sort of throws all that out the window, IMO.

Let's use the best tool for the job! :)

-selena

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Emily Strickland <emily at zubon.org> wrote:
> I was just reading this post and the comments espousing IDLE. I hope it's
> fine if I continue the discussion in this thread among us staffers.
>
> I hate IDLE. I cannot imagine any dev candidate where I work saying they use
> or ever used IDLE. Probably the reason for my especial hate was, when my
> friend Shawna was picking up Python, IDLE threw her for a loop. It has a
> quite unintuitive interface. I had to actually show her (in a menu) how to
> get to an editor rather than an interactive console.
>
> I feel Sublime Text 2 is the best bet. Yes, it costs, but it seriously
> *only* nags occasionally, in perpetuity (I still haven't paid for it), and
> it's amazing and a respectable, beautiful tool that works identically
> cross-platform.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing reasons we shouldn't recommend this awesome
> tool. It comes even with the cachet of being used by *real devs*. We're not
> just suggesting a text editor in recommending Sublime; we're passing along a
> part of dev culture.
>
> On Thursday, 5 July 2012 at 21:07 , Kevin Turner wrote:
>
> I wrote down some of our concerns about Python editors, and some
> evaluation of the options available: http://goo.gl/SQ6Hk
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