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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 ๐
I forgot to mention thought. I hated my Qbasic classes.
QBasic sounds like very old โจand Notepad is lit for first timers ๐คฉ
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 methods๐ฅ.
I like yours trying new things and keeping minimal as possible๐คฉ.
Your experience will help many othersโจ
BASIC on the 48K ZX Spectrum (back in 1983)
Look like very first code editors ๐ฅ
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 ๐ฅฒ the struggle was real
๐ I can relate.
VS code is my number 1 preference rn๐ฅ
indeed it's a very powerful ide
Sublime Text 3
Great choice to start your journey ๐คฉ
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.
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 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.
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?"
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
Musta been lazarus, back when I was learning programming with pascal :D
Never head of it but sounds good ๐คฉ
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 โจ
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.
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
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 editorsโจ
And nice current editors๐ฅ
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
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 ๐ฅ
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 awesome๐ฅ
My first code editor was Notepad too ๐
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 startโค๏ธ
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
Lot to do by own and now everything is automated with editors๐คฉ
What's your current editor?
Great set of editor for different purposes
(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 ๐ฅณ)
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 ๐คฃ... 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
Nice!
notepad.exe :D
Notepad has been saviour for first timers๐คฉ
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
My first and last one is VS Code .
Great to start and great going ๐คฉ
Notepad.exe followed closely by dreamweaver !
We started with the same๐คฉ and I would try Dreamweaver for surel๐ฅ
Bluej
Nice one that's mean your first language was JAVA
Yes
NOTEPAD++
Nice choice ๐ฅ and I haven't tested lite. So looking forward to using it๐คฉ
Turbo C++
Old and classy ๐
The first one I ever used was this thing :D quincy.codecutter.org/
Nice to Kickstart๐คฉ
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 vim๐คฉ and gonna try itโจ
In this order:
More love to VS Codeโค๏ธ
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 ๐ Now I use VSCode mostly
Eclipse is good editor and we have same current editor ๐คฉ
Dreamweaver + Frontpage
Great editors๐คฉ
Notepad was my editor for an year in middle school where I learnt HTML :)
In my college, I also uses Notepad a lot
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 developers๐ฅ
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 โค๏ธ
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++ ๐
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 ๐ฅ
My first code editor as good ol' Notepad. I did some basic HTML stuff
I make a quiz game using notepad ๐ฅ 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.
ZX Spectrum Basic on rubber keyboard and black&white TV :)))
Old is gold and I am glad you remembered itโค๏ธ
Sublime text!
Pretty good to start๐ฅ
ZX Spectrum, edlin, kedit (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDIT#KEDIT), gwbasic, qbasic, turbo basic/pascal... Vscode
Great set of editor that you have used๐ฅ
hot dog html editor
Great Name for editor๐คฃ
SciTE
Nice one
Windows Notepad to write small java programs.
I started coding Java during school on the Windows notepad.
Switched to Notepad++ when I started working.
Using JetBrains IDEs now.
C=+4 BASIC "editor" ~1988 :)
on PC: Turbo Pascal 5.5, it had great features at that time (~1990)
progopedia.com/version/turbo-pasca...
IDLE Pythonโs Integrated Development and Learning Environment.
My first code editor was MultiEdit. It was Windows only and is now defunct... but back in the day it was incredible.
My first code was written using nano (:
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.
Text editor on TRS80.
Notepad++
VSCode > Sublime Text > Atom > VSCode > Vim > VSCode > Vim > Macvim
Whew.
It was notepad++.
After notepad, I used notepad++
Notepad++
Great to o start
BASIC console on my TI-99 in about 1981. Forty years later, Iโm still a novice level programmer. Oh, well.
Eveyone is newbie in this field ๐คฃ
Notepad, looking back, I've come a long way :)
Yess, Notepad has been Kickstarter for many developers
Notepad++ but with minecraft plugin configuration instead.
Notepad++
Nice one๐
Freshman year of college we used a software called "Dr. Java"
Not sure if that counts but it was definitely my first :)