Python IDE for beginners
Features:
- Easy to get started.
- No-hassle variables.
Once you're done with hello-worlds, select View → Variables and see how your programs and shell commands affect Python variables.
- Simple debugger.
- Step through expression evaluation.
If you use small steps, then you can even see how Python evaluates your expressions. You can think of this light-blue box as a piece of paper where Python replaces subexpressions with their values, piece-by-piece.
- Faithful representation of function calls.
- Highlights syntax errors.
Unclosed quotes and parentheses are the most common beginners' syntax errors. Thonny's editor makes these easy to spot.
- Explains scopes.
Highlighting variable occurrences reminds you that the same name doesn't always mean the same variable and helps spotting typos. Local variables are visually distinguished from globals.
- Mode for explaining references.
- Code completion.
Students can explore APIs with the help of code completion.
- Simple and clean pip GUI.
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