Downloading this as I type. Programming involves using a set of high-level languages which take your commands and convert them directly into the ones and zeros that the host machine directly understands. These languages can be simple ones like BASIC, complex ones like C, C++, and C#, they can be scripting languages like Python or Lua or web-based languages like Java.
Microsoft created an awesome editor for writing in these languages. It is an editor, it will also check for mistakes like missing punctuation, syntax errors, etc... It can also manage snippets of your code library for specific things - turning on a light, rotating a motor, sending a character to a display screen so you can re-use existing functions.
From Infoworld:
Visual Studio Code comes to Chromebooks, Raspberry Pi
A community build project led by developer Jay Rodgers is making Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s lightweight source code editor, available for Chromebooks, Raspberry Pi boards, and other devices based on 32-bit or 64-bit ARM processors.
Supporting Linux and Chrome OS as well as the DEB (Debian) and RPM package formats, the automated builds of Visual Studio Code are intended for less-common platforms that might not otherwise receive them. Obvious beneficiaries will be IoT developers focused on ARM devices—and the Raspberry Pi in particular—who will find it helpful to have the editor directly on the device they’re programming against.
Very cool - been playing with the Raspberry Pi a lot - have five of them. ALso have a Chromebook and love it - it would be fun to get into developing on that too.
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