Toronto PyCamp 2010

[Chris Calloway]

On 7/19/2010 3:58 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | Conducted on the campus of the University of Toronto, PyCamp comes with your
> | own single OS/single developer copy of Wing Professional Python IDE.
> 
> I infer that "Wing Professional Python IDE" is some kind of
> proprietary thing.
> 
> Is it better than the open source alternatives?  (This is a serious
> question for the Python folks amongst us, not a taunt.)

Yes, like Boa Constructor, Wing is a professional proprietary source 
Python IDE:

http://wingware.com

Wing is produced by a former Python Software Foundation chair who has 
been very good to the Python community. Wing is given away to all PyCon 
sprinters for the last several PyCons. There are some open source 
alternatives which do a many of the same things Wing does. The main 
differentiators for Wing are:

1) Super slick/not clunky
2) Already customized for most major Python frameworks
3) Best support of any software product I've ever found

I want to include Wing in PyCamp because I really love using Wing's 
debugger more than any other. Because the audience for PyCamp is 
primarily academic, Wingware makes it super easy for me to give Wing 
away at PyCamp.

Basically, it would be foolish of me *not* to give Wing away at PyCamp 
given the opportunity to do so. It would be like having the opportunity 
to give a really good $179 software product to PyCampers and then just 
arbitrarily not doing so. There are actually a lot of giveaways at 
PyCamp. But Wing is by far the nicest.

I think it improves the PyCamp experience for PyCampers to have a really 
nice IDE early in their Python learning cycle. It sure beats subjecting 
PyCampers to IDLE.

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Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
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mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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