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.
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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Oldest comments (121)
My first and last one is VS Code .
Great to start and great going 🤩
Nice choice 🔥 and I haven't tested lite. So looking forward to using it🤩
Sublime Text 3
Great choice to start your journey 🤩
Turbo C++
Old and classy 😉
Musta been lazarus, back when I was learning programming with pascal :D
Never head of it but sounds good 🤩
Nice!
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.
VS code is my number 1 preference rn🔥
indeed it's a very powerful ide
Yesss🔥
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.
Bluej
Nice one that's mean your first language was JAVA
Yes
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✨
The first one I ever used was this thing :D quincy.codecutter.org/
Nice to Kickstart🤩
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✨
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.
QBasic sounds like very old ✨and Notepad is lit for first timers 🤩
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.
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 🔥
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
In this order:
More love to VS Code❤️