Issue7136
Created on 2009-10-15 00:40 by tjd, last changed 2009-10-15 00:40 by tjd.
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| msg94064 - (view) | Author: Toby Donaldson (tjd) | Date: 2009-10-15 00:40 | |
I've been using Idle to teach beginning programming to university students for the last 6 or 7 years. I've taught hundreds and hundreds of students, and the single biggest confusion with Idle is this: "New Window" in the file menu is ambiguous Proposed fix: change "New Window" to "New File", or "New Program" Many beginners don't get the difference between a shell window and program window. I spend some time explaining the difference, and yet they see "New Window" and don't know if this means a shell window or program window. Obviously this is not an issue for non-beginners, or even for anyone willing to experiment for a minute or two, but it seems to me this is a small change that could be useful to beginners. Plus more precise menu options are usually a good thing in general. |
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| 2009-10-15 00:40:43 | tjd | create | |