6: What tools do you need?

It's easy to get carried away with tooling, but what tools do you actually *need* if you want to learn to code? Ed and Tom break down their setups into "essential" and "really like and find very useful" tools. But which of them likes Vim the most? And which would sacrifice almost anything to keep using MacOS? Find out in this week's exciting installment of A Question of Code.

Show Notes

• VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
• PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ 
• iTerm 2: https://www.iterm2.com/
• Prettier: https://prettier.io/
• Vim: https://www.vim.org/
  • Vim talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlR5gYd6um0
• Moom: https://manytricks.com/moom/

What is A Question of Code?

A newbie coder and a seasoned veteran discuss the questions that always come up when someone begins learning to code.

Ed is looking at getting a career in programming and has been learning to code for just over a year. During this time he’s been building up a stack of questions that keep coming up from other newbie coders. Luckily, he’s got someone he can ask for help: Tom. Tom’s a seasoned coder, having worked in the industry for a few years now and has all the answers Ed needs, or does he?