I'm learning on a raspberry pi and am wondering if I should start learning on idle. Or if you feel there is a better option for beginners

i dont know what IDEs are available on raspberry pi. just pick whatever has syntax colouring and other basic features.

personally i wouldn't recommend using raspberry pi for your first programming experience. i read your other topic and thought the same thing as GRATS. Regardless....

Here's my problem. I don't have money for a laptop and I don't have room to always cart my desktop around with me and motels are boring after work

gedit, kate, sublime, vi, vim, nano, emacs, mousepad


gedit would probably be the easiest thing for you to jump into.. mousepad is pretty good too, I believe that's pre installed idk though

"sudo apt-get install gedit" will put gedit on there, it's what I've used for years on smaller computers, kate is good as well but more bulky

go to edit -> preferences -> colors & shit and change to w/e you want
I prefer cobalt, it's a dark blue background with good easy to read color scheme, easy on the eyes too.. mousepad will blind you after a while, probably

This post was edited by GRATS on Feb 13 2016 02:57am

IDLE is pretty awful, so nah.

This. Once you are comfortable with the language I'd recommend something like PyCharm which you can get a free 1 year license for if you have a *.edu email address.

+1! This is most definitely the best way to go.

thanks for the tips guys so far so good. working my way through sams teach yourself python programming for the raspberry pi