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by SonicSoul 1260 days ago
looks cool

tried the code playground, but seems there is no intellisense?

i think that would be very useful to learning

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Others have suggested autocomplete before. I opened https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder/issues/120 in response as a place to talk about it. But in general my opinion is that it would probably actually be harmful to learning for beginners, and I'd need to see evidence to convince me otherwise.

Here's my favorite explanation why: https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/a/634

Here's another similar discussion: https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/5777/python-...

I strongly disagree here. Attention to detail is the defining characteristic of a software developer. Intellisense should only be used by those who already developed that skill.