Programming for Non-Technical Founders – Part 2: Setting up your development environment
Welcome back! In this part of the tutorial, we’re going to set up your development environment.
Your development environment is the set of tools that you’ll use to write and run code. When you’re at a party and a programmer says, “I use Vim and gcc on Linux to develop in C”, they’ve just described their development environment. The best programmers are very comfortable with their development environments and have often spent hours tweaking them to suit their particular coding styles.
Be warned: this will probably be one of the longest and most frustrating parts of this tutorial. The upside is that if you can get through it, the rest is easy.
To make this easier to digest, I’ve separated this part into several sub-parts. Read them in order or it’ll be confusing.
Down the rabbit hole! Continue to Part 2A: Terminal