Any good FREE AND EASY coding softwares? Anyone?

gzCohen

I am thinking of learning to code, so i need a good, FREE software. Anybody got any ideas?

poopo

NetBeans (some prefer Eclipse).

jji7skyline

There's always stencyl, though I don't like it very much, some people say it's a step up from scratch. It has a similar visual based programming style.

PokemonLover01

I would really recommend python, or the .NET platform.

mythbusteranimator

Python, or Unity3D

cobraguy

If you want to learn Java sometime, Eclipse is my all time favorite IDE. Eclipse also has plugins for Python, C++, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript (but I don't like the web development plugins), Ruby, and Lua. That's all the plugins I know of but there might be more.

TheGeek56

Notepad++, Visual C++, Unity 3D, Eclipse, Lua

Lightningstep36

I know basic C# and it's pretty good.

3DSfan12345

WindowsExplorer

I would recommend Visual Basic if you are starting software development. If you are starting website development, I would recommend you download Notepad ++, get a free site at www.000webhost.com (just to start with) and then learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and SQL at either http://www.w3schools.com or http://www.codecademy.com.

nathanprocks

3DSfan12345 wrote:
Notepad++ on Windows, or TextWrangler on Mac.

I used to use TextWrangler but then I got Sublime Text.

technoguyx

I'd like to point out that one doesn't just “start coding”, you usually start on a given programming language.

That said, Python is a simple programming language that comes with it's own editors and runtime environment, i.e. just install one of the downloads there and you're ready. Here's a good interactive tutorial, which you can take online without having to install Python. It doesn't cover object oriented programming at all, so check this and other tutorials out after you know the basics of the language.

3DSfan12345 wrote:
Notepad++ on Windows, or TextWrangler on Mac.

These are good general-purpose code editors too, I know Notepad++ comes with syntax highlight for just about any programming language you'll need: HTML etc.

scratchisthebest

processing.org

I found it intuitive, but I was familiar with Java

honesty

technoguyx wrote:
I'd like to point out that one doesn't just “start coding”, you usually start on a given programming language.

That said, Python is a simple programming language that comes with it's own editors and runtime environment, i.e. just install one of the downloads there and you're ready. Here's a good interactive tutorial, which you can take online without having to install Python. It doesn't cover object oriented programming at all, so check this and other tutorials out after you know the basics of the language.

3DSfan12345 wrote:
Notepad++ on Windows, or TextWrangler on Mac.
These are good general-purpose code editors too, I know Notepad++ comes with syntax highlight for just about any programming language you'll need: HTML etc.

Use codecademy.com's python course.

cobraguy

honesty wrote:
technoguyx wrote:
I'd like to point out that one doesn't just “start coding”, you usually start on a given programming language.

That said, Python is a simple programming language that comes with it's own editors and runtime environment, i.e. just install one of the downloads there and you're ready. Here's a good interactive tutorial, which you can take online without having to install Python. It doesn't cover object oriented programming at all, so check this and other tutorials out after you know the basics of the language.

3DSfan12345 wrote:
Notepad++ on Windows, or TextWrangler on Mac.
These are good general-purpose code editors too, I know Notepad++ comes with syntax highlight for just about any programming language you'll need: HTML etc.
Use codecademy.com's python course.

That course uses some outdated stuff. From what I remember, it was just a couple of small stuff. Like using

print " "

instead of

print(" ")

, and

raw_input(" ")

instead of

input(" ")

.

Last edited by cobraguy (Sept. 14, 2013 20:19:21)

luiysia

scratch

glue-gun

cobraguy wrote:
honesty wrote:
technoguyx wrote:
I'd like to point out that one doesn't just “start coding”, you usually start on a given programming language.

That said, Python is a simple programming language that comes with it's own editors and runtime environment, i.e. just install one of the downloads there and you're ready. Here's a good interactive tutorial, which you can take online without having to install Python. It doesn't cover object oriented programming at all, so check this and other tutorials out after you know the basics of the language.

3DSfan12345 wrote:
Notepad++ on Windows, or TextWrangler on Mac.
These are good general-purpose code editors too, I know Notepad++ comes with syntax highlight for just about any programming language you'll need: HTML etc.
Use codecademy.com's python course.
That course uses some outdated stuff. From what I remember, it was just a couple of small stuff. Like using
print " "
instead of
print(" ")
, and
raw_input(" ")
instead of
input(" ")
.

That's only sort of outdated; I believe it teaches Python 2, which is still very (maybe more?) commonly used.

sccar3

Sublime is good for general coding.
Code Blocks is good for C++.
Eclipse is good for Java.

turkey3

I like Greenfoot for Java. I don't like Stencyl, mainly because they make it more complex than it actually could be, and I don't like pre-set gravity,

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