---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ash Guy <ash@ashguy.com> To: "pythonedu-wg@python.org" <pythonedu-wg@python.org> Cc: Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:07:09 +1000 Subject: Re: [Pythonedu-wg] A new, kid-friendly Python editor I’d make the argument that you should avoid autocomplete like the plague, but I take your point on making things easy— What about some kind of “Onion Skinning” feature where the rest of the next matched statement shows up dulled out in some way underneath the oncoming whitespace. That way you’d get the hinting, but the user would still need to make deliberate decisions and mental links to the actual python keywords.

You could take this as far as you want— what about onion skinning out a whole hello world example for new users? (Maybe that doesn’t work, but it could be interesting to test and see!)

Just a thought.

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Ash Guy. Serial Entrepreneur, Tech Junkie, Creative Thinker.

Seems like a good thought to me, fwiw. I like the idea that the editor will prompt/remind you of your choices but still allow/make you type them yourself. It should really help them get the right vocab flowing for when they're let "off the leash" (to continue a metaphor).

Teaching GCSE for the first time this year, and am really starting to appreciate how useful all of the "Puppy" ideas I'm watching go past will be.

Ian Harcombe