Teaching Pyhton on Wintel

[Paul-Michael Agapow]

Call me misguided, but I've decided to teach an introduction to
programming class using Python. The audience are the scientists in my
(evolution/ecology research centred biology) department and we'll be
using the local computer lab, which is kitted out out with a network of
modestly powered Wintel machines. So:

1. Any advice on which IDE etc. of Win Python to use?
2. Anyone done a similar class, like to advise on approaches or books to
base it off?

thanks


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Paul-Michael Agapow (p.agapow at ic.ac.uk), Biology, Imperial College
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