Download Sublime Text Editor

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, in this video we're going to download the Sublime Text Editor.
• 00:07 And Sublime is the thing we're going to use to actually write our code.
• 00:10 It's a text editor, it's a standard text editor for
• 00:13 coders, it's probably one of the most popular coding text editors out there.
• 00:17 If there's another text editor that you already like to use,
• 00:20 absolutely feel free to use that throughout this course.
• 00:23 But I like Sublime, it's completely free.
• 00:25 I'd say most coders, the majority of coders probably use sublime.
• 00:28 And so that's what we're going to use in this course.
• 00:30 So go ahead and head over to Google and then just type in sublime text.
• 00:36 And the first thing that pops up is going to be sublimetext.com, so
• 00:40 go ahead and click that.
• 00:41 Now this is the Sublime text window and you see,
• 00:44 we're on Sublime text version three, build 3211.
• 00:47 If these numbers change by the time you watch this video, absolutely no big deal,
• 00:51 just download the latest version, whatever pops up here is fine.
• 00:54 So go ahead and click this Download for Windows button.
• 00:57 And again, I'm on Chrome, so my downloads appear down here.
• 01:01 If you're on Firefox, there'll be up here, but wherever it appears,
• 01:04 just go ahead and click it.
• 01:06 And then we get this installation wizard.
• 01:08 So we probably do want to add it to the context menu, you can click that or not,
• 01:12 it really doesn't matter.
• 01:13 So then go ahead and click Next.
• 01:15 And then that's all there is to it.
• 01:17 You just have to click install to go ahead and install this.
• 01:20 Now I'm going to click cancel because I've already installed this on my computer, but
• 01:23 you'll go ahead and click the Install button, and that's all there is to it.
• 01:26 So after the installation completes, in order to actually run Sublime,
• 01:31 head over to your Windows taskbar here,
• 01:33 and I just like to click this little magnifying glass right here to search.
• 01:38 And then you could just type in sublime, as soon as I start to type in sublime,
• 01:42 it finds it, pops up right here, and you can go ahead and click it.
• 01:46 You can do the same thing with your Windows start menu.
• 01:49 Sublime will pop up and this is Sublime.
• 01:51 So in the next few videos, we'll go ahead and look more deeply at Sublime and
• 01:54 I'll show you how to use it and everything.
• 01:56 But for now, we've got it downloaded and we've got it installed, and
• 01:59 we're ready to go.
• 02:00 So like I said, we're going to be using Sublime Text, but
• 02:03 there are a bunch of other text editors you can use if you prefer them.
• 02:06 I'm going to show you just a couple of them really quickly right now.
• 02:09 So one popular one is Notepad++.
• 02:12 So if we go here and click on Notepad++, you can see this is what it looks like.
• 02:17 It's very similar to Sublime Text but the default color is white,
• 02:20 whereas the default color in Sublime is black.
• 02:22 If you prefer that, you might want to use Notepad++, and
• 02:26 you can change Sublime to have a white background if you want,
• 02:29 if you go into the settings, I'm not going to show you how to do that.
• 02:32 If you just prefer white, maybe just download this Notepad++, and
• 02:36 so that's cool.
• 02:37 Again, this one is completely free.
• 02:39 Another popular one is Visual Code.
• 02:44 Now, this is Visual Studio Code, this is from Microsoft.
• 02:47 And this is a little bit more complicated than Sublime.
• 02:50 Now this is becoming more and more popular, more people are using this
• 02:53 because Microsoft has made this available for free.
• 02:56 I think you used to have to pay for it.
• 02:58 But now it's just free, kind of part of their push to do more open source stuff.
• 03:03 And this is great, there's a lot of cool stuff in this, but
• 03:06 it's kind of overkill too.
• 03:08 There's really too much in here for the beginner.
• 03:12 For me, I just like Sublime, it's simple, it's elegant, it's easy to use,
• 03:16 there's not a lot of extras.
• 03:18 Now you can add extra things to Sublime.
• 03:20 There's all kinds of add-ons that you can add that make it work a lot more like
• 03:25 Visual Studio Code.
• 03:26 But for me, I just like the simple Sublime Text.
• 03:29 So that's what I use and that's what I suggest, especially for
• 03:32 new coders who are just starting to learn.
• 03:34 If later on, you want to learn how to do Visual Studio Code,
• 03:37 absolutely go ahead and do that.
• 03:39 But starting out, I would definitely suggest Sublime.
• 03:42 So those are kind of the two competitor text editors out there to Sublime Text.
• 03:46 Like I said earlier, the majority of coders still use Sublime Text.
• 03:50 Every year there's a big poll on StackOverflow, and Sublime Text is always
• 03:54 at the top of the list of most popular, most used text editors for coders.
• 03:58 So that's what I like to stick with.
• 04:00 So we need one more tool before we can really get started with the course, and
• 04:03 that's the Git Bash terminal.
• 04:05 And we'll go ahead and download that in the next video

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