Workspace

As a good cook, you should get a kitchen.

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I assume you already have read on Editors in the previous post and installed one.

This is a guide on how to set up your desktop as a developer. And how to start every project in this series.

Kitchen

Create a new folder in Documents folder on your computer and give it any name that you can use to identify as you coding workspace. For instance: Codes, Webpages, Tutorials. Any that fits you.

just like this

Now, this is your workspace. All projects’ codes will be saved into this folder.

Stove

Now for every project we embark on, you will have to create a new folder with the name of the project inside this ultimate folder (Codes). This will help us distinguish between the projects we perform. Hope, this is just obvious!

Cooking

Upon starting to code for any project, please do the following:

• Create a folder with the project name inside your workspace folder (Codes)

This is a facebook profile project folder inside the Codes folder

• Launch the editor of your choice, Sublime Text, Brackets or Atom. Then click File > Open Folder. Now navigate to the project folder, click on the folder and click on Open button.

Click Open Folder

Select the project folder in the codes directory and click Select Folder

• Your stove is now ready to be cooked with.

Caution

Please do not copy and paste code from the tutorials. It is a bad habit. You will nothing eventually. Code every single character by hand. And after completing any project, try to redo it without peeping to assess if you understood the material.

In the case you peeped at the tutorial for reference, finish it and start all over without peeping. Doing this ensures you can be an independent programmer.

Google is your friend. When you do not understand a keyword I present, first check it Google, if it was unclear from the results you had, then you can ask me from the comments of the project’s article.

Thank you for reading. Share to your friends to join the code club. Also give me some claps if you liked the post. Have a nice day!