File Management & Organization

Digital World

What did we learn?

  • We learnt how computers function
  • We learnt how components of computers function
  • We learnt how to communicate with a computer using its operating system

What's next?

The mystery hunt continues

Max and Emma just found the file which has the text for the digital signboard. 

Our job is to now find the file, if we can’t find it create a new one.

But for us to be able to achieve this we need to learn about file management and organisation

Let’s dive into the learning …Enjoy!

Optional module


Text editor

Creating your first page using Text Editor

 

Please note you don’t need to install the text editor if you don’t want to as we will use the online HTML & CSS editor that you were using to code the previous task which you will see embedded in each topic.

But we recommend that you install a text editor if you see yourself working as a developer in the future as text editors are the tools that we use in the working environment.

That’s why this is an optional topic that you can work through.

Let's install our text editor

A text editor is a software program application that allows users to view, write, and edit plain text.

Building a website requires you to have a text editor to write your HTML, CSS and Javascript code. The most popular text editors include Notepad ++, sublime and Visual studio code.

For this course we will use the following Visual studio code for both Windows and Mac. Click below to download the code:

 


Learn how to use your text editor

Let's watch this video

 

 

 


Fabulous – it’s great that you decided to understand more about the text editor. Hopefully you will practice and use this tool in your web development future.