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John Weland
42,478 PointsJust a passing thought: IDEs
So I find myself on Treehouse using Workspaces, console, et al. I always wondered why Treehouse didn't come out with their own light weight distro of linux that could run on the Raspberry Pi. that has a GUI setup with console and could run something like Workspaces locally, maybe have a mini webserver built in to it. It would be awesome coupled with the Pi to teach coding to kids.
Then I got to thinking of the tools I use mostly at work, I almost always have to fire up Visual Studio which is nice with its built in webserver (IIS), code completion, git support, and with a few plugins the ability to code in Coffeescript, Sass, LESS, HAML and so on, and even compile/minify/publish. I know you could install WAMP/MAMP and then install the various compilers for processors, git, and use sublime text but its many steps. They (Treehouse) should make a handy IDE. I'd buy it.
5 Answers
Dustin Matlock
33,856 PointsThere are so many IDEs out there, I'm not sure it would be an easy thing to keep up with, but I've heard some great things about PhpStorm.
Chris Shaw
26,676 PointsThere's an article on SitePoint from earlier this month which they called the SitePoint Smackdown, have a read as Craig goes into detail about which does what best.
James Barnett
39,199 PointsI'd say do one thing well, brackets is basically an IDE for front-end dev work. However, Treehouse has Android and iOS classes as well.
You could make a general text editor and compete with Sublime Text but it doesn't solve your basic issue of wanting an IDE or a pre-installed Linux environment.
Erik Heyl
4,249 PointsI love me some Sitepoint, that's where I started, and still go to, and what helped me start my web design agency after university in 2000.
John Weland
42,478 PointsRight I get that there are a bunch of great IDEs I like brackets as well James Barnett. I just meant a treehouse IDE that does all the stuff treehouse does.