Have been listening to Jeff and the first thing that comes to mind is to get comfortable with your Linux Distro. and start becoming familiar with Python. So, being a researcher by nature I have been digging Linux.org, wiki.Python.org, etc.
I have found some free guides on learning basic Python and am ready to start playing. If I’m going to dig in, I figured ask the Pro’s what Editor they prefer…
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Hello @mclejam1!
One that I used to play around with, a full IDE (as in Development Environment) is the PyCharm. It’s considered to be one of the best out there and it’s free to use.
If you’re also looking for a quick text editor that identifies code nicely, I’d recommend Sublime. 
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Hi,
I use simple gedit to edit simple things. (A few lines of code and test it).
I have spyder3 installed and use that on and off for multiple pieces of code I need to see at once.
I loaded PyCharm a couple of days ago, but haven’t really looked at it much.
There is IDLE, Thonny and a few others. In the end, it will come down to how much time you want to spend learning the interfaces I suspect.
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VScode is brilliant, and improving rapidly with useful automatic updates each month. It can be used as just a text editor, or as a full-featured development environment with great Python support. Best of all the developers at Microsoft use it themselves, and they are OK to give it away for free.
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It is much preferable to use VSCodium which is a de-Microsofted VSCode:
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Thanks, I will look into it!
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