Are the treehouse lessons formatted for mac only?

@Spencer - What's the link to the video you watched?

Hey James. The link is - http://teamtreehouse.com/library/programming-2/introduction-to-programming/basics/writing-your-program

In this particular case just use any text editor that supports syntax highlighting & auto-identing, my personal favorite on Windows is Notepad++.

Thank you so much James!

In the vast majority of the cases, the steps on Mac and Windows are the same. For most of the courses where you have to install an application there is a Windows install video in addition to the Mac install video.

Be on the look out for the teacher's notes section, which is located below the video, that's where Windows-specific issues will noted if any are found.

In the case when where the issue isn't covered in a video or in the teacher's notes section, you can simply ask here in the forums usually someone has already found the solution to that very issue.

@Spencer - You're quite welcome

While it might be @james's favorite editor, the new treehouse videos use [Sublime Text](//sublimetext.com/). It is my favorite because of all the plugins it has and because it is super fast.

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Why don't you check it out, there's already a new version (ST3) but what I use at the moment is the earlier one (ST2). Sublime Text 2 is free but you can get a licence for it while Sublime Text 3 is paid (I think).

Re: "Sublime Text 2 is free"

From the Sublime Text website:

Sublime Text 2 may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation