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By Sitraka Forler · Lecturer, Durham Business SchoolUpdated 13 September 2026 About this site
One application for writing, running, debugging and testing code.
An IDE puts an editor, debugger, code completion and version control together: PyCharm for Python, IntelliJ IDEA for Java, Visual Studio for C# and .NET. At work the debugger pays for itself: pause the code and inspect variables instead of adding print() calls. Visual Studio Code is a code editor with built-in debugging and Git that extensions make IDE-like, and an IDE is not Python: it runs the interpreter you pick.