[Idle-dev] Running beginner Pythons

[Andre Roberge]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Aivar Annamaa <aivar.annamaa at ut.ee> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Maybe we should add a different interface for constructing standard Python
> programs?
>
>
> Yes!


>
> I agree with Serhiy that IDLE is not best place for such experiments.


I thought that Serhiy's comment was to limit IDLE to Python programming
(and not other programming languages).

> Thonny, on the other hand is built specifically for beginners and we
> welcome all kinds of new ideas. There is a plugin API available (not
> documented yet, but I'll get to it very soon).
>
> I think that having a plugin API for IDLE would be very useful, especially
for enabling a different interface to construct Python program and send
them to IDLE's editor window.  I can imagine one such interface for using
the Turtle module.  Such interfaces could be especially useful for
touch-enabled devices.

For a concrete example of what I mean by this, go to
http://reeborg.ca/world.html and click on "Reeborg's keyboard".

André



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