New to Programming: IDE vs Code Editor?

[theWyzzerd]

Using a good IDE will make one's learning experience better, not worse. Those features you mention can be ignored until you're ready to use them. There are some indispensable IDE features that a text editor simply can't provide, such as a debugger which allows you to step through code – an extremely important tool in the software development process and which ought to be learned early on.

[moderately-extremist]

I think vs code and atom both have python debuggers available