Our friend the text editor

- [Instructor] In this video, I'm going…to extol the virtues of a good text editor.…Give you some reasons why you might actually want…to have one in your tool kit, whatever…your level of experience.…If you're a web designer coming to JavaScript,…you might have an editor you like for HTML and CSS,…and that editor will probably be great…for JavaScript as well.…I've been teaching new developers for years,…and I'm continuously impressed with…how many high-quality, free editors, are available now.…We'll mostly talk about the features that are noticeable…when you're working on very small projects,…with a small number of files, and not a lot of code.…Editors can of course work…with projects including thousands of files,…but they're great for the small things…you'll be working on when you start out as well.…

The first thing everyone notices…when using a code editor, is syntax highlighting.…The editor uses colors and styles…to mark the different kinds of code…to help us know what we're looking at at a glance.…This makes the difference between…