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This seems great but I find that one of the hardest things for a beginner is setting up the environment. A chapter on that would be nice for a beginner. Edit:

This seems great but I find that one of the hardest things for a beginner is setting up the environment. A chapter on that would be nice for a beginner. Edit: I guess this would constitute as more of a tutorial of insert IDE here. But even picking one like VS Code would go some distance toward learning the full scope.

Kinrany 5y ago
Repl.it is great for beginners. In the long run I'm afraid books are not a good format for helping with this. Too many individual differences, and too many things change over time.
- cutler 5y ago
  "Repl.it is great for beginners". Yes, but not for Vim users as the keybindings don't work.
  - mdoms 5y ago
    Very few absolute beginner programmers are Vim users.
__mharrison__ 5y ago
In my beginning Python book, Illustrated Guide to Python 3, I try and make it really easy to just get started with Python. I encourage using IDLE. For beginners it is fine. There are no other installs to worry about and they can focus on learning the language.