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TIL that using a simple text editor for my first 50 lines of code was way less stressful than trying to learn a full IDE right away.
I spent two weeks fighting with a big IDE's settings before switching to Notepad++ for my first project, and the difference in how fast I could just write and run my code was huge, so what's the best simple tool you started with?
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barbarahill9d ago
Totally get what you mean about the difference in how fast you could work. I did the same thing, trying to set up a big editor with all the plugins before I even knew what a variable was. It was a mess. I ended up using good old TextEdit on my Mac for months, just saving files as .py and running them in the terminal. It made everything feel so much more direct. What was the first little program you got to run in Notepad++?
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Actually, TextEdit on a Mac saves as rich text by default, which can mess up code. You have to switch it to plain text mode first. What was your first project after you figured that out?
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