Self-Taught Developer: How To Code Like A Pro 1/5–Best 5 Code Editors

Use this as your guide and reference as you start your Web Development journey.

Before you even start, make sure to download and set up a Code Editor, this will be the tool you can use to write code, there are various code editor you can choose from, for those who had started coding 10 years ago the most used platform was Notepad++, and other code editors followed after were TextWrangler, BBEdit, Coda, Sublime Text, VSCode, TextMate, Atom, UltraEdit, Vim, Brackets and CoffeeCup HTML Editor.

But in Modern Technology, the choices have been narrowed down into few namely, Sublime Text, Atom, VSCode, Vim, Brackets.

As you study along, you will find different teachers or instructors who preferred to use different text editor, it doesn’t matter if you follow them and use the same editor, or choose your own, what matters is you are comfortable with your chosen text editor, it makes you more productive, and it helps you become a better programmer.

Atom

Atom was started by Github’s genius developers, but now owned by Microsoft, the good thing about Atom is it’s totally free, it’s open-source and also highly customizable, the best part about atom is its Teletype feature, which allows several/multiple developers to work on the same project, on the same code, from every part of the world, on different location.

Atom is a bit similar to Sublime Text, but many developers who preferred Atom was because of its simple interface compared to Sublime Text.

Atom can be used on 3 Operation System (OS), Windows, Mac, and Linux, so whatever platform you have Atom is available.

Features:

• Atom is a desktop application for Web Technologies
• It has Modular Design and contains more than 50 open-source extension/packages that you can integrate around a minimal core