A Question To The Coders/ Programmers Of Lotc

[KarmaDelta 969]

As someone who has just begun coding/programming at the Vocation School I go to, I have a question for all of you who know what you are doing.
 

What programs do you guys use? 

 

As of right now in my class, this is pretty much what the noobs, including I, have been able to do in notepad:

 

 

 

We are just simply used notepad for it, and also got into Dreamweaver today. So yes, we will be doing visual basic this year. So, right now we are just doing website construction in class, while a friend of mine teaches me what they learnt last year. My friend that I will be working with said just to use Notepad ++, which honestly looks pretty simple.

 

So, as I said before, what do you guys use? I may try them out as a way to learn more, since I will be teaching myself all of this website stuff on my own. Also, explain some of the stuff on how it works as well, since it would be easier to read here with some of your comments.

 

Any tips would also be very appreciated. I already know most of the base use of html from just yesterday and today for simply making headers, paragraphs, and colors. I am really looking forward to working on this stuff since it seems like it's going to be both a challenge and fun.

 

Edit:

Edited the title to differentiate

[Alderium 20]

I can tell you this from my own work with coding as well as what several of my friends and students in the Computer Science department that you should get in the habit of putting comments throughout your code so that if someone else looks at it they can trace back exactly what you're doing.

[KarmaDelta 969]

Yes, that is what I was told when I asked a question about Dreamweaver. One of the prompts said before putting in size and color was to leave a mark down to easily bookmark your progress. After I was told that, I will be getting that habit in as fast as I can.

[Googlesearch 141]

Notepad ++ Is probably my favourite.

[Demotheus 651]

I can tell you this from my own work with coding as well as what several of my friends and students in the Computer Science department that you should get in the habit of putting comments throughout your code so that if someone else looks at it they can trace back exactly what you're doing.

 

forget that nonsense. 

 

Put comments in for yourself especially! Seperate different parts of your code and stuff. I'm doing java now and I find it helpful to do a multiline something like this

 

"VARIABLES======================= (x5 lines of that)"

 

"DISPLAY METHODS=======================(x5 lines of that)"

 

"IN CASE OF EMERGENCY METHODS ==================== (x5 line sof that)

 

You get the point. I do that at the top of different sections of code, keeps it neat and tidy, so that whne I'm scrolling down 100+ lines of code I have to look for these blue highlighted comments with thick bars and stuff and can find them easy as pie! even better, you could write up a table of contents. just scroll and count those big comments you write until you get to the numbered one you're looking for.

[KarmaDelta 969]

Demotheus, on 04 Sept 2014 - 2:26 PM, said:

forget that nonsense. 

 

 

Aw, now that I read it again, I read it as only I should put comments for myself.

 

And a question to you Demo. Since I have yet to start on Java or anything of the like.

If you do put the table of contents, and along with your blue lines, does it interfere with the code? Or do you just not put any "brackets" around them? I am only just starting HTML now, and my friend will probably introduce me to Java later on, so excuse me for my lack of knowledge on terms.

[Joe_Blackman 253]

USE ECLIPSE!

[KarmaDelta 969]

Joe_Blackman, on 04 Sept 2014 - 2:41 PM, said:

USE ECLIPSE!

 

Is there any specific reason why? I wish to at least to have some knowledge from those who use it before diving into it.

[Demotheus 651]

 

 

Aw, now that I read it again, I read it as only I should put comments for myself.

 

And a question to you Demo. Since I have yet to start on Java or anything of the like.

If you do put the table of contents, and along with your blue lines, does it interfere with the code? Or do you just not put any "brackets" around them? I am only just starting HTML now, and my friend will probably introduce me to Java later on, so excuse me for my lack of knowledge on terms.

 

 

I use blueJ, I can't remember if it's different from program to program, but for bluej, 

 

if you type // that'll give you one line of comment space. If you want a multy line you type /** and hit enter, make sure there's nothing before that when you do it. // comments can go anywhere, obviously not smack in the middle of code, but like tagged at the end of a line of code no problem. 

[KarmaDelta 969]

Ah, I see. Thank you for the inputs. This will be helpful when moving onto Java, so I will make note of this.

[Space 2335]

I've done 3 days of Comp programming. 'Greenfoot.'

 

My reaction to this thread is 'Those are words... I think.'

[KarmaDelta 969]

I've done 3 days of Comp programming. 'Greenfoot.'

 

My reaction to this thread is 'Those are words... I think.'

Space, on 04 Sept 2014 - 3:29 PM, said:

 

From what I have been vaguely told so far, I understand a bit of it. I am sure once I look back at this thread in the future, I will better understand it. So probably in 2 months, give or take. I am just using these as notes.

[Cappy 1599]

Notepad++ and Sublime Text are my favourites.

[Bravepaw 178]

Depends what I'm doing. Notepad++ is a popular one but I tend to use Komodo Edit for my web projects at work, ((my buddy at work uses PhpStorm)). Eclipse for Java, Visual C++ for games, Xcode for Objective-C and iOS development.  

[no longer active 734]

For jab I use eclipse. Once you learn some of the shortcuts it's pretty nice. It also suggests things for you so you only need to type out the first letter or two.