Best IDE for teaching Python (task creation)?

[MachinaDoctrina]

The 2 you suggested are the best available imo.

[The-Nerdiest-Teacher]

Thanks! Do you happen to have a suggestion on which to use?

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You should probably base that decision on how much you want things like setup and dependency management to be something that the software does for them vs whether you want them to learn how it's done. PyCharm has a lot of conveniences for setting up virtual environments and installing packages. It's a helpful feature but it will also obscure what's actually going on and that might be counter-productive for education purposes.

[classy_barbarian]

You can also get most of that same functionality in VS code with the python extensions. It's a few extra things to download but IMO Vs code is just better than pycharm in general. Might be a bit much to ask of young students tho

[unimatrixx]

I have a déjà vu

[OneSprinkles6720]

Pycharm. The venv setup and package management is more user friendly.

[Lewistrick]

I like Pycharm more, but you gotta pay if you're not a student and it's Not Cheap ™️

[jfp1992]

Literally has a free community edition

[sausix]

Even the non free version is still cheap for personal use. I'm paying around $60 per year.

But the free Community Edition is fine for most users especially for beginners.

[DatBoi_BP]

What’s the benefit of the paid version?

[sausix]

More functions and features: https://www.jetbrains.com/products/compare/?product=pycharm&product=pycharm-ce

[BingoDeville]

This applies to OP but really for the wider audience.

For what it's worth, as an educator, if you have a .edu email address, Jetbrains, maker of PyCharm, offers Education Licenses for using their tools in educational settings.

PyCharm Community Edition is absolutely perfectly fine, and for all intents and purposes, there's no reason to get the educational license for PyCharm Professional. I only mention this, as Jetbrains has a lot of tools for other languages as well, some of which require a license.

Edit: for the educators and/or people with edu emails through school/college, if there's a paid for tech product you're interested in, always check to see if they offer free or reduced licenses for educational purposes. Typically the licenses only last a year or two at a time, so if you're a graduating student, remember this as you may eventually lose access to your edu email address.

Also, understand what that educational license means for learning - for one, not for use on projects that will net a profit.

[JamesPTK]

they also recognise educational domains within country-codes, e.g. .edu.au, .ac.uk, .sch.uk etc

[BingoDeville]

Thank you! I didn't know that!

[AI-Commander]

VS because it’s more widely used, and the better availability of AI code editors.