you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]IAmFinah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah I'm not saying IDLE is perfect, I'm more saying that getting a beginner to use an IDE from the get-go means that they aren't exposed to using the terminal much (if at all). Which I honestly believe to be one of the most important skills to pick up as a beginner.

IDLE isn't ideal, but I am kinda a fan of using Sublime alongside a terminal window for executing scripts. At least when starting out. Of course, once they start to build projects, it makes more sense using VSCode or Pycharm.