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Code Editors

We use three editors to code. VS Code, PyCharm and Playcode

Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

VS Code is a text editor. This difference is important.. VS Code is one of the 3 editors we split out time. It's popular for a good reason; once you primary VS Code, you can use it to code in many languages outside JavaScript.

Installation

Download and install VS Code here

Once you're done with the installation, review this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPqXP_kLzpo

Essential Add-on

intelliJ (PyCharm)

If you do quick search for a coding tutorial on YouTube, changes are, they will be using VS Code. It's a great text editor but it's not Webstorm, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Here are the key difference between both.

We will spend most of our time in Jetbrains and some in VS Code. Using Webstorm allows us to take advantage of "Pro" level setup without worrying too much about installing this plugin or that plugin.

Note: We use intelliJ/PyCharm interchangeably, it's referring to the same tool. Jetbrains is the company behind Webstorm.

Installation

To install, download and install it from here.

After you've completed the installation, review these videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Di8zNY_nbg

AND

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkilt4JRvp0

Essential PyCharm setup

Jsitor

VS Code and Webstorm are for heavy duty coding and there's the other world where we might not need some that "heavy."

We want something to quickly experiment with ideas or just share a bit of code we're working in, that's where online code editors come in. In our case, we use Jsitor

Nothing to download or install, just go to jsitor.com and start experimenting.

Getting started with playcode.io