Learning to Program

Core Features

Several text editors are designed specifically for coding. The next section outlines some of the more popular text editors and their most important features. All these editors share a few core features: monospace type font, syntax highlighting, text completion, and extensibility.

Monospace Type Font

Monospace type font is a font style in which every character takes up the same amount of space. In other words, an i is as wide as a w and also as wide as a space. At first you’ll think the characters look ugly and awkward, but with time, you will come to tolerate, appreciate, then find beauty in the formatting that monospace type font brings to your code.

Syntax Highlighting

Just as the English language has nouns, verbs, adjectives, ...