Useful & Handy Programming Tools

Seasoned programmers and newbies have their own tool kit like any other craft. Programming involves the use of a range of different tools that make their work easier in some way. Some of the most useful and handy programming tools are Text editors, Online Services, Design Frameworks, File Formats and other miscellaneous software. With the use of some handy tools and the ability to discover on how to use them, will surely improve your skill. If you simply write your code but don't use any tools, things will take a lot longer and you won't get very far. Here are some of the Most Useful & Handy Programming Tools: 1. Text Editors: A text editor is a program that runs on your PC or Mac, which you'll use to write all of your code. It is like a word processor, but for plain text without formatting. Popular Text Editors: *** Sublime Text *** Notepad ++ *** Adobe Dreamweaver *** Textmate *** Vim 2. GitHub GitHub is a website where you can host your projects for free. It is designed especially for huge files but any kind of file can be uploaded also. Considered as the best way to easily share your project with others so that they can collaborate with you if they wish. Plus, Git is useful for tracking changes in your code. 3. Heroku Heroku is a cloud application platform, also called a Platform as a Service or PaaS. You can choose to host your app on Heroku instead of managing your own server. Heroku is popular among Ruby on Rails and PHP programmers who have built web application. It will work as a server to host your web application online. 4. Twitter Bootstrap Programmers who are working on a website or web application might want to consider using Twitter Bootstrap. It is a front-end framework that get its name because it "bootstraps" your website by giving it a ready-made design similar to Twitter. Twitter Bootstrap provide all the HTML structure, CSS styling and JavaScript functionality. You can tweak them as you like or leave them as they are. 5. Stack Overflow The world's most popular programming Q&A forum, established by Jeff Atwood of the Coding Horror blog. Many programmers rely on this forum when they get stuck and need help, and you can too. 6. HTML and CSS Validation In working with HTML and CSS, it is considered as important practice to validate your code to check whether it meets the W3C standards. It will add credibility to you as a programmer. *** HTML Validator *** CSS Validator