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helan jak
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Posted on - 01/27/2013
Notepad is one of the best editing program, most commonly used to edit text files and view them. I am a new user of notepad and I don't know how to make small coding in notepad, please help me, Is there any steps that I need to follow in solving small coding in notepad?Â
I don’t know small coding in notepad
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Hi Helan Jak,
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Notepad is one of the widely used tools in Windows based systems and the main use of it is to view and edit text files.
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You can use notepad for coding purposes. It can be used with a lot of programming languages as the characters used in this codes are pure text. The only difference will be how you will save the file after editing.
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For example, in Java, we can write a java code and after writing the complete code, we need to save it as a .java extension file. The same goes with python(.py), HTML(.html), C++(.cpp), JSP(.jsp), Unix Script(.sh), Visual Basic(.vb, .vba) etc. There are a lot of file extensions and based on the file extension you give, the system treats it as a different file.
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The main disadvantage of using Notepad for coding is that it is only designed for pure text content. It doesn’t offer any particular feature for a particular Programming Language. That is the reason why most of the coding people use a lot of third party tools/editors which are build specifically for a particular programming language. Eclipse, Netbeans, Pyscripter, Borland C++,DreamWeaver etc are some of them.
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The best alternative that can be used for coding instead of notepad is Notepad++. Its a free tool and offers support for a lot of file formats(including the above mentioned files). It will be easy to analyse the code as well as debug/edit them. Here is the link to it.
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Happy coding 🙂
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Hope it helps.
I don’t know small coding in notepad
If you are a beginner and want to start coding with Notepad, it would be best to use Notepad++ instead of using the traditional Microsoft Notepad. Though you can use Notepad when coding, it doesn’t have the capacity to identify errors in your code unlike when using Notepad++. Microsoft Notepad and Notepad++ are both text editors and are excellent in editing and viewing text files.
But Notepad++ offers a better edge because it is not only a plain text editor but it can also be used for coding with programming languages such as C, C#, C++, COBOL, Fortran, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, JSP, Pascal, PHP, PostScript, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, SQL, Visual Basic, XML, TCL, TeX, and others.
The best thing about Notepad++ when coding is that, when you write your code, it highlights every tag you used like in an HTML document. You can have a better view of the coding if one tag is missing a closing tag. It also features a predictive text input or the auto-completion feature. A pop-up appears as you enter the tag suggesting different options.
To try it, download Notepad++ Source Code Editor.
