PyCharm vs Spyder: a quick comparison of two Python IDEs

In this post, PyCharm vs Spyder will be compared. If you have followed my blog you may have noticed that a lot of focus has been put on how to learn programming (particularly in Python). I have also written about Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). I think that an IDE may, in fact, be very useful when learning how to code. Of course, when it comes to Python IDEs it may be hard to choose the best one (e.g., PyCharm vs Spyder?).

Spyder is one of my long-time favorite IDEs, and I am mainly using Spyder when I have to write code in Windows environments. However, in one of my blog posts PyCharm was suggested in one comment (see the comments on this post: Why Spyder is the Best Python IDE for Science) that I should test PyCharm.

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Installing Rodeo IDE on Linux

Rodeo - RStudio for Python - a good IDE for doing Data Science

I recently wrote a post on the RStudio like Python IDE Rodeo (RStudio-like Python IDEs – Rodeo and Spyder). In that post, I installed and tested Rodeo 0.44. However, Rodeo 1.0 was released in October. Rodeo 1.0 cannot be installed using Pip. Therefore, I wrote a bash script for downloading and unzipping Rodeo. Note, the … Read more

RStudio-like Python IDEs – Rodeo and Spyder

Spyder IDE a RStudio for Python?

In this post I will discuss two Python Integrated Development Environments (IDE); Rodeo and Spyder. Both Python IDEs might be useful for researchers used to work with R and RStudio (a very good and popular IDE for R) because they offer similar functionalities and graphical interfaces as RStudio. That is, Rodeo and Spyder can both be seen as the RStudio for Python.

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