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Due: Recommended by Monday, 5.21
Text Editors
Text files can be created and edited using a “Text Editor”, which is any application for editing ASCII text documents. This includes both prose or code documents.
The default application on Mac and Windows are the following, respectively; textEdit.app and Notepad.exe. However, specialty applications exist which can ease the type of work you will be undertaking this semester. These applications are designed to speed up the writing process and are specially designed to display text documents in a way that makes identifying errors more easy.
There are many types of text editors, each optimized for specific types of tasks. This Wikipedia page on text editors will familiarize yourself with some of the specifics and differences. Pay particular attention to the “Typical Features” section.