A note on the IDEs
Just a few words about Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). To follow the examples in this module you don't need one, any text editor will do fine. If you want to have more advanced features such as syntax coloring and auto completion, you will have to fetch yourself an IDE. You can find a comprehensive list of open source IDEs (just Google "python ides") on the Python website. I personally use Sublime Text editor. It's free to try out and it costs just a few dollars. I have tried many IDEs in my life, but this is the one that makes me most productive.
Two extremely important pieces of advice:
- Whatever IDE you will chose to use, try to learn it well so that you can exploit its strengths, but don't depend on it. Exercise ...
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