Edubuntu and CS Education using Python

[jelkner at divmod.com]

Hi Oli,

I'm looking at pida now and it looks promising.  I was wondering how easy it would be to add a "beginners mode" to it that would only have two panes on start up: an edit window and a shell / console window?  As it is now it appears with 5 panes, it is too complicated for beginners.   What's more, there doesn't seem to be any way to hide those panes.  If the ui could be simplified a bit for new users, I'd be all in favor of making it the default python ide.

Thanks!

jeff

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:11:15 +0200, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>hi,
>Am Mittwoch, den 29.03.2006, 17:03 +0000 schrieb jelkner at divmod.com:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> The Dapper release of Edubuntu still lacks a beginners IDE that works out of the box.  Here are the problems:
>i was planning to get pida to main for the next release, we talked about
>it several times already (in person and on irc), did you take a look at
>it ? its plain pygtk and wont pull stuff like wxgtk to main.
>
>ciao
>	oli