Python (source: http://xkcd.com/353/)
It’s so true. I have been doing small programs to learn Python and I am loving it. My Python editor of choice is pyscripter. It gave me everything I was looking for in an IDE:
- File Tabs
- Auto-Complete
- Line Numbers
- Complete Control of the IDE settings
- Colors
- Hotkeys
- Window Location
Whenever I tackle a language I am unfamiliar with I start with the same test project: Create a Person class, create an Employee class that inherits from the Person class, and make a tester that creates both, adds them to a list and then iterates through them displaying the results.
This is a simple task, but allows me to view the same concept in multiple languages. It also helps me learn what is the same and what is different.
Code after the break.