[NFBCS] Accessible Python Editor?

[Gene Kim]

Hey Kelly,

Early congratulations for your graduation from CCB, and excited to hear
that you will be starting a CS degree with Python! I personally love
Pycharm from JetBrains, which wasn't great "out of the box", but works
quite well after tinkering with the settings. After setting it up, it reads
the indentation of each line (e.g. "left margin, 4 spaces" for one tab),
and you can change the stock keyboard shortcuts to run code/navigate to the
output. CLion is another IDE from the same company that works just as well
but supports C++.

Unfortunately, it's very difficult to set up without sight (I needed my TA
and lecturer to help). I'll reach out to them and see if they can write up
a quick guide for you/the person who'll be tinkering/anyone else interested
so you won't have to read through hours of Stack Overflow help threads.

Apologies that this may not be immediately helpful.

Kindly,
Gene
--
Gene Sung-Ho Kim | B.S. Symbolic Systems | Stanford 2023
Secretary | California Association of Blind Students









On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 10:50 AM Kelly via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>      I am about to graduate from the Colorado Center for the Blind, and
> will be heading off to college for a computer science degree this fall. The
> professor of CS-111 (my first formal course in the field) will be using
> Python as the teaching language. I have been playing with Python since
> seventh grade, but I was content to use a very basic editor on my iPad,
> which will not work here because I will be required to import additional
> libraries and I prefer editing on the computer anyway.
>      I experimented with NotePad++, but ran into problems when attempting
> to run my Python files. For now, I am running them with the command line
> and using a different cursor to explore the output, but that only works
> some of the time. Do any of you know of a reliable and accessible platform
> that can edit (or at least run) .py files? It would be great if the program
> could handle other languages like Java and C++, but it's not a requirement
> just yet. Thank you for any input!
>
> Kelly Cusack
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On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 11:07 AM Ida B via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hello! I just graduated with my degree in computer science  in 2019 and
> I’m nowworking full-time as a developer.  I really love using eclipse as an
> editor. However, eclipse is mainly used for Java and so you’ll have to
> download an extension to use it for writing python code. Other great
> options are visual studio code or visual studio 2017.
>
> Good luck and feel free to reach out with any more questions.
>
> Best,
> Ida
>
> > On Jul 26, 2020, at 1:51 PM, Kelly via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >     I am about to graduate from the Colorado Center for the Blind, and
> will be heading off to college for a computer science degree this fall. The
> professor of CS-111 (my first formal course in the field) will be using
> Python as the teaching language. I have been playing with Python since
> seventh grade, but I was content to use a very basic editor on my iPad,
> which will not work here because I will be required to import additional
> libraries and I prefer editing on the computer anyway.
> >     I experimented with NotePad++, but ran into problems when attempting
> to run my Python files. For now, I am running them with the command line
> and using a different cursor to explore the output, but that only works
> some of the time. Do any of you know of a reliable and accessible platform
> that can edit (or at least run) .py files? It would be great if the program
> could handle other languages like Java and C++, but it's not a requirement
> just yet. Thank you for any input!
> >
> > Kelly Cusack
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