Thonny

Thonny
Developer(s)Aivar Annamaa and contributors
Stable release
4.1.7[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 16 December 2024
Repositorygithub.com/thonny/thonny/
Written inPython
Operating systemCross-platform
PlatformWindows, Linux, macOS
TypeIntegrated development environment
LicenseMIT
Websitethonny.org

Thonny (/ˈθɒni/ THON-ee) is a free and open-source integrated development environment for Python that is designed for beginners. It was created by Aivar Annamaa, an Estonian programmer. It supports different ways of stepping through code, step-by-step expression evaluation, detailed visualization of the call stack and a mode for explaining the concepts of references and heap.[2]

Features

  • Line numbers
  • Statement stepping without breakpoints
  • Live variables during debugging
  • Stepping through evaluation of the expressions (expressions get replaced by their values)
  • Separate windows for executing function calls (for explaining local variables and call stack)
  • Variables and memory can be explained either by using simplified model (name → value) or by using more realistic model (name → address/id → value)
  • Simple pip GUI
  • Support for CPython and MicroPython
  • Support for running and managing files on a remote machine via SSH
  • Possibility to log user actions for replaying or analyzing the programming process

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Availability

The program works on Windows, macOS and Linux. It is available as a binary bundle including the recent Python interpreter[4] or pip-installable package.[7] It can be installed via the operating-system package manager on Debian, Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu, and Fedora.

Reception

Thonny has received favorable reviews from Python and computer science education communities.[8][9][10] It has been a recommended tool in several programming MOOCs.[11][12] Since June 2017 it has been included by default in the Raspberry Pi's official operating system distribution Raspberry Pi OS.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Release 4.1.7". 16 December 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  2. ^ Annamaa, Aivar (2015). "Introducing Thonny, a Python IDE for learning programming". Proceedings of the 15th Koli Calling Conference on Computing Education Research. Koli, Finland: ACM. pp. 117–121.
  3. ^ Annamaa, Aivar (2015). "Thonny, a Python IDE for learning programming". Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Vilnius, Lithuania: ACM. p. 343.
  4. ^ a b "Thonny website". Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Thonny on a Raspberry Pi: Using the new Python IDE in Raspbian". The MagPi Magazine. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  6. ^ "Learn to code with Thonny — a Python IDE for beginners". Fedora Magazine. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Thonny Python distribution". Python Package Index. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  8. ^ "Are you a Python newbie? Meet the IDE for beginners". JAXenter. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  9. ^ "New Term New Tool - Thonny, a Python IDE". C'est la Z. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  10. ^ "Python IDEs for beginners - Thonny, Geany or Idle". ProjectCodeEd. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Installing Packages in Thonny". Python Data Visualization MOOC by Rice University. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  12. ^ "Thonny". Programming MOOC by University of Tartu. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  13. ^ "A Raspbian desktop update with some new programming tools". Raspberry Pi blog. Retrieved 28 October 2018.