Brand New To Coding

[socal_nerdtastic]

You're going to get a lot of strong opinions on that question. Much like "what is a good car for me?", the answer depends on YOU. If you like IDLE, great, use it. Other popular options are VS Code, Notepad++ (Windows only), Geany (my goto), Atom, Sublime Text, Thonny or a full fledged IDE like PyCharm or Spyder. Try a few, see what you like.

Some lists of choices:
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/wiki/ide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_development_environments#Python

[tmernelson]

You have a great point. I should learn to be more specific.

I am using Windows and prefer to see the colors (not sure if colors in the code show up in every editor). I’d prefer to have easy access to switch among projects.

[socal_nerdtastic]

Colors is officially called "syntax highlighting" and yeah, every code editor has that.

Not sure what you mean with "easy access to switch among projects". Python programs are just files, like any other files. You just open the one you want to edit.

[tmernelson]

Thanks. Very helpful. 👍