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@fuckwit probably win/mac users in that class
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@hube emacs?
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@hube well if they are developers they probably should know how to edit a file on Linux. Regardless of their preferred development environment and/or OS
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@fuckwit @hasu theyre new to all of this and none of them use any form of a terminal let alone know what it is. were just introducing them to a few popular gui editors and letting them go from there. plus even if I wanted to introduce them to vim I couldnt theyre school computers disabled powershell and cmd
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@olback notepad++ its a windows only text editor. its what I started with
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@fuckwit Im pretty sure only a few of them know what linux even is
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@Bubbles yeah, me too. It's so fast compared to atom and VS Code. Sublime is also so much faster.
Started being a Teaching Assistant for Intro to Programming at the uni I study at a while ago and, although it...
late night coders be like 😎
Notepad++ #2?? Who? Where??!!
I'm giving a presentation on different text editors on Friday to the class I'm helping teach. I'm excited it's the beginning of the year and they're new our world and I get to show them and review 5 editors.
If you're curious the the 5 editors are
Notepad++
Sublime Text 3
VS Code
Atom
Brackets
No IDE they have no need for an IDE yet.
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