A note on IDEs
Just a few words about IDEs. To follow the examples in this book, you do not need one; any decent text editor will do fine. If you want to have more advanced features, such as syntax coloring and auto-completion, you will have to get yourself an IDE. You can find a comprehensive list of open-source IDEs (just Google "Python IDEs") on the Python website.
Fabrizio uses Visual Studio Code, from Microsoft. It is free to use and it provides many features out of the box, which one can even expand by installing extensions.
After working for many years with several editors, including Sublime Text, this was the one that felt most productive to him.
Heinrich, on the other hand, is a hardcore Neovim user. Although it might have a steep learning curve, Neovim is a very powerful text editor that can also be extended with plugins. It also has the benefit of being compatible with its predecessor, Vim, which is installed in almost every system a software developer regularly works...
