Environment Setup for Javascript

In order to create a project I have had to setup my development environment. I used the following tools:

  1. Browser
  2. Editor

I could use any browser but I choose working with Google Chrome due to Chrome DevTools. To access them:

  • open a Chrome page
  • open the View menu at the top of your browser window
  • select Developer
  • and then select Developer Tools

As my editor I have chosen Visual Studio Code and jsfiddle.net to keep some snippets I was interested on.

Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform editor, that means you can use it with Windows, Linux and macOS. It helps you with debugging, with Git control and you can install plugins.

Visual Studio vs Visual Studio Code

The main difference is that VS Code is an Editor while VS is an IDE.  Check these two posts for more information:

 

 

Getting the Basics on Web Development

Online Education courses I have completed:

OpenClassrooms courses are concise. They are great if you want to have a general idea about the subject that is covered.

Good courses to get the fundamental info but you have to pay if you want to do a project to practise your new skills.

The Javascript part is a lot harder than the Ruby one. They explain the fundamentals and you do some exercises and some projects as a Rock Dodger using JS and a Tic Tac Toe with Ruby. I had really enjoyed this course.

Books:

WordPress.org

Here are the reasons why I have  chosen this publishing platform:

[ First: WordPress.org is not WordPress.com. Nice post about this matter. ]

  1. It is a free open-source.
  2. You own your website and can customise as wanted using PHP, CSS and MySQL.
  3. Self-hosted version. I already had my web domain and hosting with Go Daddy. It is very easy install WordPress on your Hosting Account.