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Daniel Scalia
Daniel Scalia
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Posted by Daniel Scalia
Daniel Scalia
8,447 Points

question about Notepad++

I see that notepad++ is quite different from TH workspaces. Is there TH instructional videos about how to use notepad++?

3 Answers

William Li
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William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Hi Daniel.

Sorry, TTH doesn't have such video. Workspace is a ZERO setup coding environment TTH custom-built in-house, it's meant to be used with TTH course lectures.

While there's nothing identical to Workspace elsewhere, that doesn't mean there are no alternatives.

A UNIX (MacOS, Linux) Operating System with any text editor + Terminal can do anything Workspace can, and then some. But you need to do all the setup yourself.

the second alternative is a cloud IDE, for example, Cloud9, requires minimum setup, but it's like a more robust & feature-rich version of TTH's Workspace.

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

To add on to William Li's answer...

I also wouldn't recommend using Notepad++. It is hard to visualize code, since there's no code coloring. It is just much much less convenient. It is possible, but if you want to code like a pro, and be able to code much faster, you should use a code-based text editor like:

  • Brackets (free)
  • Atom (free)
  • Sublime Text ($79.99 but unlimited free trial)
  • Code Wrangler

Both Treehouse and I use Sublime Text.

Treehouse however also uses Atom occasionally (they still use Sublime Text more though).

I hope this post will help you out :smile:

~Alex

William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

hello, Alex, thanks for answering the question and helping out in the forum :)

FYI, I would like to point out that Notepad++ is a not the same program as the Notepad that comes with Windows OS. Notepad++ is actually a very robust programmer's text editor used by many developers on Win.

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Oh... I mixed those up XD

Atom seems pretty good, though. (I never tried it but it looks great.)

Sublime Text by far is my favorite. I once tried Brackets and I recall loving it, too. Code Wrangler, I dunno. I just somehow remember that name. LOL

Rob Allessi
Rob Allessi
8,600 Points
Rob Allessi
Rob Allessi
8,600 Points

Treehouse staff uses a wide variety of code editors, some of the most popular being Atom, Brackets and SublimeText. Though, I have to disagree with Alexander's points on dismissing NotePad++. I've been using it off and on for the past 6 years, and I don't find it to be difficult to visualize code at all, code is colored and there's different views depending on what language you're coding in and is my preferred editor.