Tools for Information Literacy
Task 01.06: Install a text editor
To be prepared for the web development sessions,
we will want to have a good text editor ready.
Windows users
If you have a Windows laptop, it comes with a native text editor named Notepad. Notepad, however, is a tad limited.
A better choice is to download Notepad ++. It is both useful and free.
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Mac users
Macs come with a native text editor named TextEdit. It, however, tries to add tags to the tags you will write and that will mess up your web pages. Follow these instructions to change the default preferences so it will work for you as an HTML editor.
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Windows, Mac, or Linux
However, you might want to try Visual Studio Code. It, too, is both useful and free.