Integrated Development Environment, commonly shorten as IDE, is something that exists among the modern Development Environment today. Imagine the common text editors software such as Notepad on Windows, or TextEdit on Mac, we can theoretically write the code and save it as the correct extension file, such as *.py, *.java, etc.. However, this requires us to learn every syntax of the code, as well as time consuming in terms of managing the working directory in the project. Therefore, the blog article “Understanding Modern Development Environments: A Complete Guide” by Matthew LeRay, will help us how to easily manage the development environment process in terms of the versatility.
In summary, the blog article gives us the basic introduction surrounding the definition of Development Environment. It is about comprehensive setup of hardware and software tools that software developers use to create and maintain software systems, along with other elements such as Developing, Testing, Staging, and Production Environments. The article highlights how IDE compared to traditional text editors process, which what we know today are syntax highlighting and code completion, and more highlights on the point of time consuming, enhancement of developer proficiency, and customization tools. And lastly, the article highlights the importance of development environment, where the goal is for enhancing developer productivity and ensuring high-quality software output.
I choose this blog article personally due to my own curiosity of “What if I try using a text editor software on my computer to write code?” The article did give a basic introduction in terms of the long evolution where IDE is formed from the traditional use of Text Editors. Reflecting on what I’ve learned using VS Code, it is not just basic functionality such as code completion and syntax highlighting, the versatility of IDE expands to the advanced features, such as integrated version control, and collaboration tools, in order to catch up with time management process as the complexity of the project grows over time. Overall, this blog article helps me learn that I can’t simply just rely on the text editors software, such as Notepad or TextEdit, as mentioned from the introduction of this blog post. And the reasons for why not can be seen as I started to get touch on the higher complicated project, where using an IDE such as VS Code would reduce the time process, as well as further advantages such as working with collaborations team, compared to solo development.
In my opinion, it’s easy get familiar with advanced, and modern Development Environments, where I think collaboration and time management could reduce the complexity of managing the project in the real world. Hence, trying to setup the crucial elements such as the right IDE, Version Control System, can be the good start when working with the modern Development Environment, to expand my versatility when working on with necessary tools to enhance the development proficiency, and for the overall production enhancement.
Blog Article: https://speedscale.com/blog/modern-development-environments/
From the blog CS@Worcester – Hello from Kiet by Kiet Vuong and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.