I agree. It even features a basic IDE, IDLE, as part of the default install. No need to figure out how to configure your text editor to interact with the Python

I agree. It even features a basic IDE, IDLE, as part of the default install. No need to figure out how to configure your text editor to interact with the Python shell. I remember trying to learn Ruby before Python, several years ago, but then got stuck trying to configure Geany to work with Ruby.