For my IDE of choice when working with my project, I use Eclipse. I was introduced to Eclipse a couple years after I had made the first iteration of The First Fantasy. Now instead of Java, I use it for Python development. To do this, I use PyDev. There’s a ton of features, including the ones you would expect from a proper IDE like code completion, syntax highlighting, code coverage, and a debugger. It feels natural and provides me really everything I need as a Python newbie. In fact, it’s probably got more features than I’d ever use in my lifetime.
Eclipse has literally hundreds of additional software projects that can be installed to enhance productivity. PyDev is just one of these. Another tool that I use is EGit, a git plug-in to allows me to perform version control operations from within the IDE. I’ll go into EGit more in a later, as it can be pretty complex compared to other VCS solutions and deserves its own post.
What IDE do you use? I hear all sorts of methods that people use to work on their code and a surprising number of them use basic text editors such as VIM or Sublime to write code. I couldn’t submit myself to that kind of torture for larger projects, but I’d imagine it would feel good to make something from complete scratch with little assistance.
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