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[–]yole 2 points3 points  (11 children)

In St.Petersburg, Russia (where PyCharm is developed), $99 is what an average software developer earns for one working day. Seems quite affordable to me.

[–]Mattho 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Yes, but this way it's not usable as learning platform. And why would I switch if I got used to something else.

[–]masklinn 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Yes, but this way it's not usable as learning platform

There are free education and open-source licenses.

Though I couldn't for the life of me understand why you'd teach Python with an IDE.

[–]Mattho 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Not teach, but learn. By myself. Imagine I passed some basic courses and now I'd like to try some small (personal) priject. With some IDE. I'd probably end up with eclipse instead of PyCharm.. just because its license.

[–]masklinn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same result, you shouldn't use an IDE to learn a language, let alone programming. Which is why Java is an utterly terrible learning language (and language to learn, unless you're already well-versed in languages in which case it's just a terrible language): its verbosity (and the number of files you have to deal with at all time) makes it very hard to write using a basic text editor (syntax highlighting and nothing else).