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QBasic, which didn't really make a distinction between its editor/IDE and the interpreter.
And a for my first steps in web development it was Windows notepad, which I quickly replaced with an editor called phase 5.
Great. Now I feel really old.
And I thought I was the only one who learned Q basic.
Don't forget QB64 which was quite cool too 😃
I forgot to mention thought. I hated my Qbasic classes.
QBasic sounds like very old ✨and Notepad is lit for first timers 🤩
There have been so many over the years...
I am a quite firm believer in continuously trying different things to see if something works better for you then the previous thing.
This means that I might focus on other aspects of a tool then most - for instance, I do not really care about the plugin ecosystem all that much, as I think a great tool has to be great out of the box, not only after days, weeks or months of fine tuning.
Don't get me wrong, I do adapt tools over time, but I try to keep this to a minimum. Anyhow, I digress, and every rule has an exception (more on that in a minute).
I got into computers in the 90s and my first editor was Notepad. I first wrote some scripts and later I developed my schools website using it. Yup, it used
<blink>and also<marquee>. Yup, on the same element. Apologies for anyone who ever saw that site.A few years later I went into DreamWeaver because a friend had a license and I thought it looked so professional. That did not last long ^^
Eclipse was next, and i actually wrote my first ever production code there. When I joined the first consulting company I worked in, I used Coda and later Brackets, JetBrains and Sublime. All of these were also relatively short journeys, because a colleague introduced me to Vim.
You probably guessed already that Vim is the exception to my 'rule' above. The Vim setup I use today is nothing like the out-of-the-box Vim experience (here is a shameless plug if you want to have a look at my configuration). Perhaps this is also because I have stuck with it for the longest time.
Either way, despite still using this tried and true tool from time to time, these days I have more or less switched entirely to VSCode (probably with less than 5 plugins) and I love it.
This all is just a really long winded way of saying:
Use what works for you, and always at least test drive things that look interesting. At the same time, I do not change just for the sake of change anymore, and any tool I use today has to at least meet these criteria...
I balance these and also my 'minimum customisation' rule in practise of course, since after all - a text editor is where i spend most of my time - so it has to be a place i enjoy and something that helps me be productive.
Thanks for adding key values to your experience with code editor and your methods🔥.
I like yours trying new things and keeping minimal as possible🤩.
Your experience will help many others✨
BASIC on the 48K ZX Spectrum (back in 1983)
Look like very first code editors 🔥
i started my coding journey back in August 2018 in my uni. we used Gedit for a around 2 years, in 2020 November i shifted to vs code and it's very handy.
I wonder how you managed to code in only gedit for 2 years.
I know gedit is customisable but it's not that handy.
I only use gedit to write docs.
don't ask 🥲 the struggle was real
😅 I can relate.
VS code is my number 1 preference rn🔥
indeed it's a very powerful ide
Yesss🔥
My first editor was edit.com which cam with Microsoft DOS 6.2. it worked with QBasic which came in the same package and the first language where I did programming.
Great man 🔥
Back to the 90's/00's I used to use Microsoft FrontPage and Adobe PageMill to create personal home pages just for fun (with a lot of skull gifs ant things like that). And about first programming language, I remeber making changes in a mIRC script (just for fun also), so mSL was my first programming language.
Ringing the old memories when you first time hit run ✨
Sublime Text 2 I believe whatever that was popular around 2015-2016, then there was a short period of atom. I think I picked it up because of Travis Neilson of devtips, finally I settled with VSCode
Occasionally I would pick up rubymine for ruby development but even then I have gone back to using vscode for ruby.
Oh I forgot there was period of me trying to get in VIM, and I was using macvim + janus in order to look cool that didn't last very long, now I just use the vim extension for VSCode.
VSCode is the best, light text editor yet powerful as IDE
Great to start❤️
Mine was Notepad on a Windows machine. Then I found CoffeeCup HTML editor, which I eventually replaced with Notepad++. Then I got a Mac and switched to Sublime and now I'm on VS Code. I don't think I'll ever switch from VS Code. LOL
I started out with web development using Programmer's Notepad, which in retrospect isn't really much of a step up from using Notepad. It's still a pretty solid editor, although it's pretty basic. I actually still use it from time to time when I need to quickly view some code.
Currently, I use Visual Studio Code for most web-related stuff. For Java (which I also now heavily work in), I prefer JetBrains.
Me too for the quick view, I open some code in notepad
Notepad. I was learning HTML/JavaScript, and later Java, programming in notepad, compiling from the Windows command prompt. My Dad (who was facilitating my learning) did not tell me about IDEs for a while. It was one day when he was working from home on a Java project that I first learned about Eclipse. I was like, "can we download that on my computer, please?"
The first line of code I ever wrote was in AppleScript.
The first text editor (or in this case, a WYSIWYG editor) was Adobe Pagemill.
Then I moved on to BBEdit.
Then Macromedia (later Adobe) Dreamweaver.
Then Notepad++.
Then Panic's Coda.
Then Sublime Text.
Now Visual Studio Code.
First language was Pascal in school, but i wasnt interested in it. Later in school i got a project to do kinda history museum site for it. I got into HTML/CSS + JS, so i think JavaSript was my first programming language i was really interested in.
When i just started i was using Notepad++ but then found VS Code and still love it.
VS Code is awesome🔥
My first code editor was Notepad too 🙂
notepad :3
back then sites didn't need too much fancy stuff and everyone could easily make a site... nowadays? not so sure hahaha
after notepad, in no specific order, I used turbo pascal, dev c++, python's normal thingy, eclipse, netbeans, sublime, visual studio and vscode.
I currently use sublime, vscode and visual studio(my main workstation).
Back when code editors were word editors✨
And nice current editors🔥
DevCPP. I had some quite old book on C++ and author used it so I thought it would be a good choice. Later I found out there is much more sane Visual C++ 2010 Express.
My first code editor after that was Sublime Text. I spent much time on it after finally moving to VS Code (I changed few editors in the meantime but didn't use them for long). Nowadays I mostly use WebStorm and VS Code.
I had used DEVCPP for compiling and running my c program in my early program learning
I started at college 10 years ago and remember like it was yesterday, I was so excited to start coding and there it was, I saw the first time the death blue screen on the console for..C!!!
That was my first language and we worked on the cmd, after 2 months teachers let us move to an editor, we used notepad but the big ones took Notepad++. Great days!
The first was Eclipse. That was back in College when we were all learning Java. From there I moved to Netbeans and then to IntelliJ. After college I've been doing JS work so I've lived in VSCode for a few years now.
The first editor was probably some BASIC related thing on the C64, where I wrote my first hello world.
The first coding I did in the mIRC internal editor, for some scripts I copy and pasted together from the internet.
In my first programming job I used notepad++.
Then it went Eclipse -> WebStorm -> VSCode.
Musta been lazarus, back when I was learning programming with pascal :D
Never head of it but sounds good 🤩
When I started using computers, I started with notepad because it was installed on the computer and I did not know any better. After reading a great deal of the editors available, I started using Vim. 10+ years later I still use Vim.
We all have started with the plain Notepad
Sublime Text 3
Great choice to start your journey 🤩
Nice!
Bluej
Nice one that's mean your first language was JAVA
Yes
Lot to do by own and now everything is automated with editors🤩
What's your current editor?
Great set of editor for different purposes
notepad.exe :D
Notepad has been saviour for first timers🤩
Haha it was awful without syntaxic coloration :p
I quickly went to notepad++, and... dreamweaver if i reacall correctly ? ^^
Me too I switched to Notepad++ and then VS code
Notepad.exe followed closely by dreamweaver !
We started with the same🤩 and I would try Dreamweaver for surel🔥
My first and last one is VS Code .
Great to start and great going 🤩
(In order my mind can remember)
Notepad for Windows 98.
MACROMEDIA Dreamwaver.
GEdit or Kate. (distro hopping years)
Brackets. (c.2015)
VIM (yeap, late to the 🥳)
Currently VSCode (on any OS).
BTW, first website I made using. notepad was by following a MAGAZINE tutorial. Those were mad of paper back in the day 🤣... that was around --frame-- time.... just before --table-- layouts were a norm and CSS 1.0 was out.
You were really into learning new stuff
Your editors define programming through ages
Turbo C++
Old and classy 😉
Nice choice 🔥 and I haven't tested lite. So looking forward to using it🤩
Started off from pycharm, then immediately after Vs Code and since then been using it, and couple it with vim, you have one of the best IDEs out there
I am very impressed with vim🤩 and gonna try it✨
ZX Spectrum Basic on rubber keyboard and black&white TV :)))
Old is gold and I am glad you remembered it❤️
In this order:
More love to VS Code❤️
Uuu.. this question takes me back ages ago:
Kate
And I am glad that your remember this even today
My first code editor is notepad, then later shifted to vscode and vim, finally neovim, I like neovim a lot
So I started using it as my daily driver
Notepad is first code editors for many developers🔥
nano xD
My first projects were bash scripts, though nano could not be considered an IDE. So to answer correctly, my first IDE was good old Eclipse 😅 Now I use VSCode mostly
Eclipse is good editor and we have same current editor 🤩
If we count 90s html, then notepad was first. The first programming language and ide I actually count was Visual Basic. Tons of fun.
These days I use neovim.
Dreamweaver + Frontpage
Great editors🤩
My first code was written using nano (:
I started coding Java during school on the Windows notepad.
Switched to Notepad++ when I started working.
Using JetBrains IDEs now.
ZX Spectrum, edlin, kedit (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDIT#KEDIT), gwbasic, qbasic, turbo basic/pascal... Vscode
Great set of editor that you have used🔥
Notepad++
Great to o start
BASIC console on my TI-99 in about 1981. Forty years later, I’m still a novice level programmer. Oh, well.
Eveyone is newbie in this field 🤣
It was notepad++.
After notepad, I used notepad++
IDLE Python’s Integrated Development and Learning Environment.
C=+4 BASIC "editor" ~1988 :)
on PC: Turbo Pascal 5.5, it had great features at that time (~1990)
progopedia.com/version/turbo-pasca...
Macromedia Flash (before Adobe bought them). You could edit actionscript with it. I played a part in the web's "skip intro" days. Actionscript was a legit strongly typed language though - eventually.
Notepad++ 🎉
Eventually I discovered atom and then after a lot of resistance for no reason, I moved to vscode and never looked back...
Yep, VS code is awesome 🔥
My first code editor as good ol' Notepad. I did some basic HTML stuff
I make a quiz game using notepad 🔥 I remember as my first project
Ditto on the Vic-20 here. First compiled that I remember was either the Merlin assembler or Turbo Pascal on the Apple II in school, not sure which came first.
NOTEPAD++
Sublime text!
Pretty good to start🔥
hot dog html editor
Great Name for editor🤣
Notepad, looking back, I've come a long way :)
Yess, Notepad has been Kickstarter for many developers
Very first one was Notepad++ then Visual Code, but neither of them was enough so I made my own :D glue.codes
That's amazing, goona try your editor ❤️
SciTE
Nice one
My first code editor was MultiEdit. It was Windows only and is now defunct... but back in the day it was incredible.
The first one I ever used was this thing :D quincy.codecutter.org/
Nice to Kickstart🤩
Windows Notepad to write small java programs.
Text editor on TRS80.
Notepad++
VSCode > Sublime Text > Atom > VSCode > Vim > VSCode > Vim > Macvim
Whew.
Notepad was my editor for an year in middle school where I learnt HTML :)
In my college, I also uses Notepad a lot
Notepad++
Nice one👍
Freshman year of college we used a software called "Dr. Java"
Not sure if that counts but it was definitely my first :)
Notepad++ but with minecraft plugin configuration instead.