IDE to teach children python? [closed]

Question

I am looking for an lightweight IDE (lightweight enough to run on a raspberry pi_ similar to the ones described in this thread with collaborative support similar to Google Docs, Gobby, Cloud 9, Codiad, etc., so that I can help to teach programming.

It seems that there are many collaborative editors, and many very nice IDE's, however there are very few collaborative IDE's, with debugging support and a run button.

Personally, I use vim, with the excellent plugin CoVim if I want to edit collaboratively, however vim is not particularly user friendly.

Open source is a huge plus, though not strictly necessary. Cross-platform support, including linux, is a must (and not just through x11 and gtk+ on mac -- many applications say they are available on mac but in truth you have to install half a linux distro if you want them to work). If it supports vim bindings I would be very happy, but this is completely not necessary.

A whole educational IDE, with classroom support and assignment submission would be a very useful thing to have, now that I come to think of it. Just a side-thought.

Answer 1

I would recomend:

http://www.learpython.org/

http://interactivepython.org/courselib/static/thinkcspy/ or:

http://codenode.org/

http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/htmlnotebook.html

They are not IDE's, but there are great collaboration tools.

If you want a lightweight IDE, have you considered geany ?

For collaboration:

See GOBBY, or GEDIT-COLLABORATION (the former seems quite inactive). And I am not sure how lightweight they are ...