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Michael Knott
1,243 PointsWhat is the best program to write code in?
I'm curious what the best free program to write code in is?
I think TeamTreeHouse gives a recommendation early in the instruction, but my previous computer died and I don't have the program anymore.
3 Answers
Adrian Scott
8,284 PointsHi Michael,
Sublime Text is used a lot lately by developers (I use it too). It is however, not free, but you can "continue" using it after the trial expires. According to the official site, "Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use.".
There are other awesome text editors, such as;
- Notepad++
- Vim
- Emacs
- Eclipse
- Netbeans
For PHP development, I strongly suggest PHPStorm :)
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points+1
PHPStrom for php, and netbeans for everything else.
Michael Knott
1,243 PointsThank you guys, very helpful
James Barnett
39,199 PointsGiven that this question is in the HTML category I'm guessing you are interesting in writing HTML / CSS.
In that case I'd say, here are a few good free choices:
- Notepad++ (on Windows)
- TextWrangler (on OS X)
- Brackets (on Both)
Andrew Shook
31,709 PointsAndrew Shook
31,709 PointsWhat OS are you using, windows or OSX? Also, what languages are you looking to program?