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What was your first code editor?

Introduction

Today, we have known many code editors that offer more than a just code editor. They have many features and support for extensions to increase their features.

Coding

Back to when we code the first time, we were having less idea about code and code editor. So we used whatever was best or recommended.

So today, let's share about our first code and code editor.

My Experience

  • Batch Scripting Language was my first programming language. I used it to code my first program that was Hello World!
  • The Code Editor that I used was Notepad
  • No feature of a modern code editor, it was only me and notepad

Discuss

  • What was your first experience with code and code editor?

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boriskeny

NOTEPAD++

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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!

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Siddharth

VSCode > Sublime Text > Atom > VSCode > Vim > VSCode > Vim > Macvim

Whew.

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StevenMcGown

Freshman year of college we used a software called "Dr. Java"

Not sure if that counts but it was definitely my first :)

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Jim Carr

Notepad++

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Aaron Reese • Edited

Text editor on TRS80.

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The Interview Sage

My first code editor was Notepad too 🙂

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Jonathan Apodaca

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?"

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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.

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Lucas Perez

My first code was written using nano (: