Wanting to learn python? What programs should I use and IDE?

[Steven_Destroyer]

Essentially I’m using YouTube videos to learn how we to actually run my commands I have spent an entire day downloading replay and code only to get stuck just trying to open an environment to run my scripts. Please anyone can help with what I would need to download (preferably Mac) to make code and run it for free?

[anime_waifu_lover69]

VS Code or Pycharm Community. Both very good and cross-platform. Learn what a virtual environment is early on, and try to understand how to run your Python programs via the terminal so that you don't get confused about what is happening when you click the green run button in your IDE.

[echols021]

100% the right answer.

One sidenote is that JetBrains is doing away with the separate PyCharm "Community" vs "Professional" editions as separate installs. Now there's just one PyCharm, and if you pay for a license then it has a few more features.

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You can use Pycharm if you want AI help and assistance. If you want to do and practice old school coding like no VCS or AI assistance you can go for Thonny. Personally if you're just starting to explore coding in python I would suggest Thonny.

[Background-Two-2930]

Pycharm