[SOUND] Hi, I'm Nick.

And in these lessons, we are going to learn about Workspaces.

Workspaces is an online text editor and

development environment that is integrated with Treehouse.

In other words, it's the tool that helps you write a code to make websites and

web applications.

You can use workspaces to follow along with Treehouse courses.

And you can also use it to build projects on your own and practice coding.

If you've never used a text editor before, don't worry.

In these lessons, we'll take a closer look at workspaces and

learn how to use its features step-by-step.

When you use workspaces,

all of your code is stored online in what we call a workspace.

You can use workspaces on one computer and

then pick-up where you left off from another computer.

Using workspaces, you can make simple HTML and CSS websites, but

there's also built-in support for backend languages like Python and Ruby.

Workspaces also has a console, so you can use the command-line to start servers and

run your applications.

Again, if that doesn't make any sense to you right now, don't worry.

We're going to look at the features of workspaces one at a time.

So, let's get started.

When you're taking a course on Treehouse,

you can scroll down just below the video player and click on the Workspaces tab.

If you don't already have a workspace associated with that video, it will say,

looks like you need to create a workspace for this video.

And this is a link that you can click on to start a new workspace.

It will name your workspace the same as the course and video.

And then you can click Launch it to start a new workspace.

And the workspace will automatically be loaded with the content for the course.

You'll see a welcome message that tells you a little bit about workspaces, but

we can close that.

And on the left side here,

you'll be able to open files that are associated with the course.

For now, I'm going to close this workspace, so

that I can show you how to launch a workspace without a course.

On the left side here, you can click on Workspaces, and

then you can click the New button.

To launch your own workspace and work on your own projects.

You can title your workspace, so I'll call this, My Workspace.

Of course, this should be your own title.

Then you can choose what's called an environment to start your workspace from.

So for example, if you're working with HTML and

CSS, you might want to choose Front End.

But if you're working with something like Python, or Ruby, or PHP, or

any of the other supported languages, you should choose those environments.

For now, I'll choose Front End.

Then finally, once you've picked an environment, you can choose a template.

I have a lot of workspaces I've already created.

But if you don't have any workspaces already, you'll see these templates here.

Where you can start a blank workspace, or you can use a popular front end framework.

Like HTML5 Boilerplate, Foundation Framework, Bootstrap and a few more.

So I'll choose Bootstrap just for this example, and then click Create Workspace.

When your workspace starts up with a template like this,

you'll have a few files to get you started.

Such as the CSS for Bootstrap and JavaScript and a few fonts.

And then you can create your own files as well to get started on your work.

That was a very quick tour of workspaces, but in the upcoming videos

we're going to take a look at each of the individual features one at a time