Download and Install Sublime Text

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, in this video, we're going to download and
• 00:06 install the Sublime Text Editor.
• 00:08 Now the Sublime Text Editor is the coding editor that we're going to use to write
• 00:11 our code on.
• 00:12 And that's where we're going to be doing the bulk of the work throughout
• 00:14 this course.
• 00:15 So, head over to Google or just come up to the top of your navigation bar of your web
• 00:19 browser and type in sublimetext.com.
• 00:22 And this is the Sublime Text website and this is the Sublime Text Editor,
• 00:26 you can see a little picture of it right here.
• 00:29 So you can see it's just a basic text editor, but
• 00:32 Sublime Text is one of the most popular and widely used text editors for coders.
• 00:36 There are lots of text editors out there, Visual Studio Code from Microsoft,
• 00:42 Pycharm is one that's kind of popular, Notepad++ is popular.
• 00:47 Some of those are free, some of them cost money, but
• 00:50 for me I like using Sublime Text.
• 00:51 It's great for people who are just getting started with coding, it's great for
• 00:55 professionals.
• 00:56 It just has all of the things that we need a good text editor have, and nothing else.
• 01:00 Sublime has a few bells and whistles that you might like, but
• 01:03 it's not heavy on the bells and whistles.
• 01:05 But we're just going to be writing code,
• 01:07 that's all we're going to be doing in this course.
• 01:09 So we don't need a lot of bells and whistles so
• 01:11 Sublime Text will work perfectly for us.
• 01:13 Now, we can come over here to the Download for Windows button and
• 01:16 we'll click that in just a second.
• 01:17 But before we do that, check this out right here,
• 01:20 it says Sublime Text 3, (Build 3211).
• 01:23 Now, if these numbers change by the time you watch this course, no big deal,
• 01:26 just go ahead and download the latest version.
• 01:29 It really doesn't matter what version you use at all,
• 01:31 just the latest one will work fine.
• 01:33 So this is available for Windows, Mac, or Linux.
• 01:35 So it doesn't matter what type of computer that you're using,
• 01:38 you can use this Sublime Text Editor on your computer.
• 01:40 So go ahead and click this Download for Windows button, and then go ahead and
• 01:44 click Save.
• 01:46 So we want to just save this anywhere, so I'm going to save it to my Desktop, and
• 01:49 I've already got it.
• 01:50 So it's saying, would you like to replace it?
• 01:52 So yes, I'll go ahead and replace it, you obviously won't get that little message.
• 01:56 Now again, I'm on the Firefox web browser, so
• 01:59 my downloads are up here in the top right corner.
• 02:01 If you're using Chrome,
• 02:02 they're going to be down here in the bottom left-hand corner.
• 02:05 Wherever your downloads are, just go ahead and click the thing and then go ahead and
• 02:09 click this to open it.
• 02:10 And when you do, this is the screen that should pop up.
• 02:12 So you can see there's not a whole lot going on in this screen.
• 02:16 We don't really have to do much anything, we can click Next, and
• 02:19 then go ahead and click Install.
• 02:21 Now I've already installed it on my computer so
• 02:23 I'm not going to install it again.
• 02:25 But you'll go ahead and click this installation button right here.
• 02:27 And then in the next screen, a little wizard will pop up that will
• 02:30 continue the installation process automatically.
• 02:33 There shouldn't be anything you need to do.
• 02:35 And as soon as it's done, that's all there is to it.
• 02:37 So in order to run this, just go to your Windows Start menu and type in sublime,
• 02:41 and a little icon will pop up, go ahead and click that.
• 02:44 And this is what you should see, so this is the Sublime Text Editor.
• 02:49 Hello there, you can see it's just a basic coding text editor.
• 02:53 And the nice thing about this is we can change the view,
• 02:57 come down to Syntax, and we can do anything we want.
• 03:01 So if I click Python, now suddenly, you can see colors change and
• 03:05 things as I type code.
• 03:08 Doesn't really matter what this is, you can see just the colors change, and
• 03:12 that's really nice.
• 03:13 That's really what you want in a coding text editor, so
• 03:15 that you can keep track of different things.
• 03:18 So, okay, that's all there is to sublime, like I said, this is the tool that we're
• 03:22 going to use for the most part throughout the rest of this course, almost entirely.
• 03:26 And we'll get used to this as we go along, so that's all for this video.
• 03:29 In the next video, we'll download the terminal that we're going to use to run
• 03:32 commands and that'll be coming up in the next video.

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