Edubuntu and CS Education using Python

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Wed Mar 29 17:44:50 UTC 2006


On 3/29/06, jelkner at divmod.com <jelkner at divmod.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The Dapper release of Edubuntu still lacks a beginners IDE that works out of the box.  Here are the problems:
>
> 1. IDLE won't start without the -n argument, which is not used by default in the menu.  Thus IDLE will only start for the first person who launches it.  It will fail for all subsequent users with a "IDLE can't bind to TCP port 8833" error.

Can you file a bug on this?

Lets look at what we need for Dapper+1. I support a basic python
ide/environment  by default (especially if we win space by dropping
kdeedu)

Corey




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