Tools you need for the HTML/CSS course

2 must-have tools:

One Modern Browser: 

• Google Chrome Browser (Must have)

One Text Editor:

• Visual Studio Code (Highly Recommended)
• Sublime Text
• Atom Editor
• Web Storm
• Notepad++
• Brackets Editor

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Lesson 1: Tools you need for the HTML/CSS course

For this course, you will need two pieces of software. The first is going to be a modern browser. I highly recommend that you download Google Chrome because probably it is the best browser out there. But more importantly, it comes with a very handy set of tools called the Chrome developer tools. So you can go to the menu > more tools, there is something called developer tools. We are going to use these toolsets throughout our course in the later stage. So that’s very important.

The next thing you will need is a text editor or sometimes also called the code editor. This is a piece of software where you write your code. There are many code editors or text editors out there. The one I highly recommend, we are going to be using in our course is called VS Code, or for the full form, it is called Visual Studio Code. It is by Microsoft. It is a free tool, and it’s pretty awesome. You don’t just use the VS Code for HTML and CSS; you can use it to code different languages, e.g., C #, Python, JavaScript, and many others. It is available on Mac, Linux, and Windows, so you are all set for that.

If you prefer a different code editor, there are many other options. Another good one is Sublime Text. It is a paid one. They have a free trial. There is another one by Github. It is called the Atom Editor. Another one which is a paid one, which is very popular as well is called Web Storm. You try out Notepad ++ and Brackets as well. But you need one of those code editors. They all work pretty well. But I like the VS Code. It is very popular. So download Google Chrome and a text editor like VS Code, and I am going to talk to you in the next lesson/video.