MakeBot is a simple IDE for Python. It is designed to allow students to start programming as quickly and easily as possible.
For my Lunar Repair Yard course, I needed an IDE for students to use which was intuitive and quick to learn. The command line works well once you know how, but I wanted to have the absolutely shortest learning curve possible so my students could get to the fun stuff right away. The interface is simple and elegant, not covered with buttons and side panels so as to not confuse the subject: your program.
v1.4
- Works on Intel and PowerPC Maces, OSX 10.4 or greater
- New mpkg installer that has separate parts for applications, frameworks, and site-packages/MakeBot.pth.
- Includes universal binary forms of pygame, OpenGL, numarray, PyObjc, and py2app.
- Publish command works for some programs but not all. We're still working on this. Patches welcome.
- When run the first time, Python is the default Builder, instead of (None).
- Uninstaller is included, for those who have previous versions of MakeBot.
