Question

any suggestions on the programming environment that's best to use..?

Answer 1

I have been using Eric and found it quite good

http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/

Answer 2

If you don't want to invest too much time in setting your environment, you should probably use IDLE, that is the one use in the course. Other options:
Geany
gEdit
PyDev
...

Answer 3

text editor :P

Answer 4

thank-you you all I'll weigh my options .......Tomas do we have anything like text editor really..

Answer 5

what do you mean? of course there are a lot of text editors

Answer 6

emacs