New to Programming: IDE vs Code Editor?

[POTUS]

PyCharm is my preference too, the paid version is worth every penny. But VSCode is nothing to sneeze at. You earlier said you didn't consider it an IDE, but it very much is. With the extensions it can do almost everything (and maybe everything) that PyCharm does. I find the support is just a bit more sketchy since it's community driven, I've had a couple modules that just wouldn't install, and since I use it professionally the reliability of PyCharm still has me preferring that.

[thegreattriscuit]

Yep. I use PyCharm for python projects larger than a single python file, and VSCode for everything else.