First we need to talk about exactly what a Text Editor is. A Text Editor is software that you either download or is already on your computer that writes and manages text.It’s a tool that is essential to software developers because you write your code in plain text. When it comes to picking a text editor that is right for you it really comes down to personal preference, and what exactly you want. Every computer comes with a text editor, for example on windows it’s called notepad, but when you use notepad its important to know that notepad is the barest of bones of a text editor and it doesn’t have the features a software developer might need or want. Some features to look out for in a text editor are code completion, syntax highlighting, a series of themes, or emmett. Code completion is important because it gives you possible outcomes of what you’re writing and tell you errors about what you’re writing, instead of writing it and coming across errors later syntax highlighting is a way to color code your text and it makes it easier to see possible problems because you can seperate the process. a good series of themes is important because you don’t want to strain your eyes. Most people like a dark background with color text. Emmett helps you speed up what you’re writing.
Navigating Your Terminal Cheat Sheet
pwd print working directory or where you currently are in the file ls a short list of directories cd or change directories. I like to remember it by saying change direction.
Important Concepts from the reading
relative paths when looking at a relative path its where we are relatively in the file or directory it won’t have a forward slash in front of it. absolute paths the exact location in the file. it will have a forward slash in front of it.
in linux or wsl everything is a file your keyboard, your monitor, your speakers file obtaining a file or directory ls -a to list all hidden files