Thanks,

This was good. This was my first use of ShowMeDo, I'm still learning what I can expect from the videos.

I have noticed that you are going to the previous line and hit enter to copy the previous command to the current line. You can accomplish this by pressing Alt+p in IDLE for Windows and Cntl+p in Mac OS 10.x.

just starting.

Great introduction to IDLE, thanks. :-)

Good one. Please practice on the volume of your voice and talk a little bit slower.

As a new programmer to python this episode was informal and I understood your explanation.

Just looking

That was a pretty good video for newbies.

Nice Quick Start. Experienced programmer, but first time using Python. I was able to do the exercises along with your discussion of them. I am glad you made me pay for this, else I would feel like I was stealing.

This video was very helpful in better understanding just a small portion of the functions available in IDLE. I've tested IDLE in the past, but this adds to that information. I really appreciate seeing it from a different perspective

This is a nice intro into idle, gives a good idea of what idle does and provides some good links to other idle intro 's - thx

I'm glad to be learning Python here at ShowMeDo. I find the visual medium a lot easier than reading book. I do both, but I prefer video. Keep up the great work. I'm looking forward to building the WxPython image viewer. Thanks!

Nice one Ian!

I learned some new things about IDLE from your screencast. In fact I am reapidly becoming a fan of showmedo after listening to your interview on the Ubuntu UK podcast. Keep up the good work!

Superb video thanks!

I did not know about the shortcut keys so that will help me a lot while I am using Idle

Hi Marlow. Yes, there are 2 problems there.

1) The Python Newbies on XP series did get renamed a year back to Python Development on XP. We know more about correctly-naming a series now so that shouldn't happen again.

2) The Python section of the site doesn't show all 3 of the Subscriber videos yet, we need to add in a Subscriber-video section so that it is obvious - we'll do this in the next few weeks.

Cheers,

Ian.

Just subscribed today & finished my first subscriber video (Using IDLE v1.2). I liked everything about it. Thanks Ian!

One minor suggestion to help us newbies: On the page enumerating "Python Tutorial Screencasts & Videos" and "Beginner Programming Python Video Series", etc... I could not find listed anywhere 'Python Newbies on XP...' which I had seen mentioned & recommended. I think it is named something slightly different? " Python Development on XP"?? (if so, the variation in names is not helpful) It's not in "python 101" or "Resources for Python Newbies" which sounded right at first. Anyway, I finally navigated into the out-of-date "Beginning Python" series and then found & followed a link to "python newbies on xp..." But that's just a minor nit on the web pages.

I like how you included multiple lines as well as some Ptyhon syntax in addition to just showing features of IDLE. Very useful!

Hi Ryan, cool, glad you like them :-)

We *really* do believe this is a Better Way than just hacking away burning the midnight-oil. What we really need to do of course is increase the number of really good series that we carry, to help educate more people.

We're always looking for new contributions!

Ian.

Nice introduction to IDLE. Like you mentioned in the ShowmeDo presentation at PyCon, these videos are a great alternative to just hacking away at learning a new language. Great initiative and contribution to the world of Python.

Can't wait to watch all the new Python videos that are forthcoming...

Hi Vincent. Great, glad you found it useful! So nice also that you're in my preview group for the next Introductory Python series, your feedback is very helpful.

Cheers,

Ian.

The screencast format is perfect for this kind of introduction. It was easy to learn the solutions to some issues that irritated me for a while when I was first trying to learn to use Idle. I was glad to hear you say that the introduction entitled "Using IDLE (for Version 0.5)" dated March 5, 2000 is still fairly accurate as far as it goes. I think I had seen it a while back and had not read it thinking it was out of date.

Thanks especially for the discussion of tabs versus spaces and how they're handled by the interactive window and the editing window. Very helpful.

Nice tutorial Ian. I did some Python work with the pyparsing library today and this was useful.

Hi miracle, glad you like the series. Thank you so much for the comments over these 5 videos, they are much appreciated.

As you say on the next video, I do show you how to run Python from the command line :-)

Glad that you found these so useful,

Ian.

This IDLE session is great. It really highlighted this simple to start yet powerful free IDE. A build-in IDE, In my point of view, is one of many reasons Python is getting more popular. I started to like Python and this series by Ian more...

One thing that Ian can show the audiance with a few seconds, probablly is how to use the saved python code outside of IDLE. something like:

c:\python> python hello.py

After all, one purpose of writing any code is to use it on normal OS environment... This is just a minor thing. I am sure most users will figure out...

Please continue, Ian... Great work!

Before watching the video, I was under the impression that IDLE was nothing more than a fancy syntax highlighting editor but here Ian shows you how useful IDLE really is when you start learning Python.

Though I use PyDev for my daily work, I do go to the Python shell to just try out a few things on the interpreter before writing my main code but I never used IDLE for it, I always preferred command line. But Ian just shows you that IDLE is more than a syntax highlighting interpreter and he demonstrates a lot of it's feature like repeating the code (by hitting return), Alt + '/' (which shows code complete), and Ctrl + C (Key-board interrupt), etc.

He also points you to some good references to IDLE tutorials which will be very useful when you are beginning to learn Python.

Keep going Ian :-) Looking for more videos from you here on ShowMeDo.

Hey Eric. Cool, it is good to hear that you learned something new :-)

Let me know what other topics you'd like to learn about?

Ian.

Things that I just learned new here.

1) The Alt+/ is awesome.

2) Hitting return in from of code will repeat it.

Good job Ian.

I couldn't see the video. Could you please fix it. Thanks a lot.