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I've used this in the past with my son to teach him simple stuff. Would be nice if it somehow had integrated docs though, at which point it would be roughly up to speed with QuickBasic in the 80s.



I see that Thonny has the Python shell built into it.

You can use the help function to see some information about things.

For example:

    help(list)
Of course all of the help that you get that way is only useful if you already know the concepts you need and the names of things. It’s not like a tutorial or a guide or anything. But still, if you find yourself forgetting some detail about something it can be a way of finding the information you need.


UI definitely reminds qbasic and other similar IDEs of an era (turbo pascal, turbo cpp, etc.). And docs on lang + stdlib would be very good!




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