What Should I Install? You will need three major pieces of software. First, install these two browsers if they are not already present on your lappy.

• Chrome Install this browser for its developer tools, if you don't already have it.
• Firefox Install this browser for its developer tools.

You will need a plain text editor. Several choices are available; pick the one you like the best. You will not want or need a word processor in this class. Do not turn any .docx files in for this class. All work in this class must be submitted as plain text, save for media files (images, audio, video) you might submit as part of a project. Your hallmates who have taken CS courses here are familiar with these.

• Atom is a plain text editor that makes life good in this class. It works great for Mac, Windoze and Linux. This is the most popular text editor at NCSSM.
• VS Code is an excellent editor for all platforms.
• Notepad++ is great for Windoze users.
• If you are a Mac or Linux user, you have the option of using vim. Place this file in your home directory, and name it .vimrc. It will give you sanity in programming classes.

      set tabstop=4
      set et
      set nohslearch
      set backsapce=indent,eol,start
      

  Type this exactly as shown. The vi editor has a sharp learning curve, but once you become a vi ninja, it's blazingly fast.
• A lot of Linux users swear by gedit, which is present in the default install. You can also get gedit for Windoze and Mac. It has tons of plugins that give it all sorts of great capabilities.

What's in here If you click on a link for an HTML file, right-click to view document source to you can see the HTML code.

• The directory useful has sample lab practicals and old assignments.
• The directory pages has some web apps you should be able to code by the end of this class.

• The directory files has files you will find useful

• The directory links has links to useful reference materials.