I'm a TA at my university. We teach python in the intro course and from what I can tell my boss is similarly displeased with this reality. We are currently tryi

I'm a TA at my university. We teach python in the intro course and from what I can tell my boss is similarly displeased with this reality. We are currently trying to replace IDLE with some other IDE in our curriculum. I've pestered my boss to require PyCharm or a similar IDE but he says it is likely too complicated for beginner programmers. While I respect their opinion I feel that pushing people into a difficult environment immediately will better their develop their confidence for future situations like this. It's all to often that I encounter fellow students who are "afraid" to attempt to use tools, algorithms, language features, etc because they haven't been trained in their usage. As someone who taught myself to program that's pure crazy talk.