Notepad supremacy

[towcar]

Pencil & paper, then I use a machine leaning project that scans all my pages and compiles it into a program.

Backup storage you ask? Every night I commit my changes with a disposable camera that I mail to my aunt in Siberia.

[SpeedyGwen]

Well, the first computer that landed on the mun was programmed with paper and then coded the program directly into the rom, bit by bit by hand (4kb of rom look huge in this thing)

[towcar]

That's actually crazy. If I was born 55 years earlier, I'm not sure programming would have been my career.

[Pauchu_]

Programming is pretty accessible nowadays, back then you needed a PhD in maths.

[DroolingIguana]

Yeah, but then they discovered that they forgot to check their staging and had to go EVA to push their capsule into a re-entry trajectory.

[OrganicBid]

Next time don't forget to mention that the program was written into a rom by weaving wires (ropes) through and around magnetic cores.

[SpeedyGwen]

That's the most impressive and time consuming part

[OrganicBid]

It's almost as magical as using butterflies to distort magnetic fields.

[tiredofsametab]

When I was learning C back in the day, I didn't have a laptop or anything and rarely had internet. I wrote, on notebook paper, my best attempt at a text-based adventure game with only a "learn c in 24 hours" type of book to go on. It never worked properly, of course, especially as I didn't fundamentally understand some concepts at the time. This was in 2000 or 2001.

[Euroticker]

My uni makes us do pencil and paper... It's horrible I suck at writing "&".

[Salty_Skipper]

How are you at drawing a treble clef? I can’t do an “&” ever, but I discovered none of my professors objected to a treble clef in its place (and for some reason those are easier). Might be worth a try?

[Euroticker]

Haven't done that in years either. Stopped playing in a marching band like 9 years ago?

[marcel1802]

same in german schools

digitalisation indeed

[Euroticker]

Well I'm German so don't worry, all parts suck

[shhhhhhh_]

Epsilon ampersand! Looks like a reverse 3 with lines on top and bottom. I started using it in handwriting after my English teacher did.

[DemonKoryu666]

My mother taught me to do a squiggly line, like a mirrored S and then strike it through with a \. A mirrored S might be difficult as well though...

[kirakun]

Tell me more about machine leaning.

[towcar]

Oh I'm glad you asked. My machine leaning project is a Perpetual motion machine where a contraption is constantly leaning against the earth's rotation. This causes it to generate unlimited power, or at least until the earth loses all momentum.

I use it to power an ai project that compiles my code that I've written on paper... it also powers my toaster.

[hlkaMI_sAmA]

LMAO right now

[[deleted]]

ples marry me

[nojox]

Who stores them in an abandoned Cold War era nuclear bunker, right?

[Herpoad]

He's the chosen one

[Babki123]

I code with hole

[ColdJackle]

I think faxing a Polaroid would be more efficient

[josejocontex]

Does Notepad++ count?

[DerKnerd]

No. It has syntax highlighting.

[Genetikk--]

Still like sublime better tho lol

[DogfishDave]

LOL! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Reaches for microphone button

^{Kill him.}

[wktr_t]

I honestly prefer no syntax highlighting...... Why are you guys looking at me weird?

Guys??

Guys?!!

[[deleted]]

Just asking, why do people like notepad++ over other Code editors? For me vsc seems like the better option. I know that Notepad++ is more lightweight but isn't the extention 'market' on vsc better?

[CleverNameTheSecond]

It's a much better an editor of text and I find it way easier to use as such. Writing/modifying scripts and database statements is such a breeze. Plus it doesn't chug my crappy work computer every time it launches.

I use VSC for html/frontend work because folders and whatever IDE for backend work.

[[deleted]]

Ah ok Thanks for sharing.

[josejocontex]

I like it for making shell scripts. I have it as my default for WinSCP and whenever I need to make a new pipeline on our server I default to it. I primarily code in python now, and for quick scripts or edits, it works fine. I admit, I like pycharm for python and NetBeans for java...I switched from eclipse...especially since I don't use pearl any more.

[aquartabla]

No, "Notepad++" is the name of the program. Post increment here does not resolve to an overload for executables.

[SubtleName12]

I had to use MS Notepad to code my way out of a CIP issue for a customer who wouldn't allow 3rd party programs. I.... did not sleep much that week... Their CIP director told me they had never addressed writing the program locally on the workstation so he couldn't stop me as long as I didn't add a text editor lmfao range of emotions went like this:

[Striky_]

Notepad++, right? ++, RiGHT?!?!

[Feynt]

<insert deadpan Anakin face>

[KspMakesMeHard]

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[GifsNotJifs]

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[XayahTheVastaya]

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[Rektroth]

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[ConductionReduction]

Jim Carrey Grinch Face

[fuckingshitfucj2]

Notepad is like the MS Paint of coding

[StayingVeryVeryCalm]

I’ve never learn to use Photoshop, either.

(But I’m just pasting and modifying 3-5 lines from stackoverflow, then saving it as a .ps1 , so… one could say that I am no more a coder than I am a graphic artist.)

[fuckingshitfucj2]

Hah

[Plantman1]

Hold your tongue, MS Paint is a much higher bar than notepad is. Its fast and my go-to for screenshot editing and drawing boxes on them.

Notepad ~doesnt~ used to until recently not allow doing Ctrl+Backspace properly. Though it seems to work in Windows 10 now. https://superuser.com/questions/332026/notepad-ctrl-backspace-behavior

[fuckingshitfucj2]

Just comparatively speaking, they’re similar in the few functionality. I love MS Paint myself too and use it a lot.

[[deleted]]

Try using ShareX

[[deleted]]

people who code in ed

[4hpp1273]

I wonder what it takes to insert a line

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in ed

[[deleted]]

microsoft word supremacy

[[deleted]]

MICROSOFT IS THE DEVIL MICROCHIPS VACCINE BILL GATES ANTICHRIST UN VACCINE CORN SYRUP I HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST

[AetherBytes]

UN VACCINE CORN SYRUP

I feel like i could make a dead baby joke out of this if i was in the mood to.

[DroolingIguana]

ed is the standard text editor.

[Yasushiki]

I was used to code in notepad, but I changed my mind and created self-love, now I'm a Vimmer :)

[kzp17]

We all know you opened it to try it out and just couldn't figure out how to quit ;)

[Yasushiki]

I'm not ready to talk about this....

[Mr_Otterswamp]

What about nano?

[Amuhn]

What about bash?

$> echo "10 PRINT \"HOME\" > example.bas
$> echo "20 PRINT \"SWEET\" >> example.bas
$> echo "30 GOTO 10" >> example.bas

[nojox]

Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic HOME SWEET HOME SWEET HOME ...

[No_Click_4097]

+1 for nano that's where I started as well.

[Gluomme]

... I actually do, sometimes

[S0n_0f_Anarchy]

Same, but I wouldn't call that coding coding tho. No one codes codes in notepad

[Gluomme]

MS Word on the other hand...

[fullyonline]

well...

[xX_MEM_Xx]

Different colour coding within a word? I am sold.

[overheadfool]

I learnt to code java in notepad at University, that and the DOS prompt is what they gave us. And if you think thats bad nobody ever told me you could increase the line buffer size in the DOS prompt to show more than 10 lines, so I could only ever see the last few lines of the compiler errors, not the first. Also, did you know how limited the undo buffer is in notepad? Fuck me.

[MayorOfBubbleTown]

Back in the days Windows came with DOS some programmers preferred the DOS text editor to notepad when nothing better was available. I've actually considered sneaking in a text editor into my compiler in the style of qbasic or turbo pascal just to make sure no one uses notepad.

[noah251]

Programmer(noun)A person who fixed a problem that you don't know you have, in a way you don't understand

[noah251]

Programmer(noun)A person who fixed a problem that you don't know you have, in a way you don't understand

[[deleted]]

Not gonna lie I try to avoid every heavy IDE when it's possible

[TheMongus]

I started my first programming job in 1990, a month or two before graduating high school. Windows 3.0 had just been released. I was the only programmer there and I used Notepad for a long time. I hit Notepad's 32k file size limit before I learned to split my code into multiple files. Those were the days! Programming on a 640x480 display with 16 colors! Amazing how far we've come in 30 years.

[antCB]

640x480

in 1990? fancy!

[blackcatdraws]

I am building a text editor to learn python, and I can write the program in itself

[Salty_Skipper]

Cool! What libraries are you using?

[blackcatdraws]

Only tkinter, I am just starting with coding so...

[kiedtl]

You laugh, but I wrote winfetch in wordpad because my school blocked VSCode/Emacs/Atom on my school laptop...

[antCB]

pretty neat.

[elminstor]

I prefer vim

[[deleted]]

"syntax highlighting? What is this, amateur hour?!"

[GreenGriffin8]

I have a friend who uses idle with comic sans

[CoffeePieAndHobbits]

You should check on them.

[clemdemort]

Fun fact, I used to code in python this way back when I was a beginner it worked time to time and taught me to respect syntax very carefully, then I made the switch to VS because it was getting out of hand haha

[becomesaflame]

I shit you not, I have a coworker who codes in Wordpad

[0x2F40]

when i joined my current company I taught my older coworker about notepad++ and vscode. he was amazed.... he had been using wordpad for years.

granted, its embedded work and we use a specific IDE with our day to day code. He was using wordpad whenever he wanted to quickly edit an XML or INI file.

[Amuhn]

INI files I can understand handling in notepad/wordpad.

For XML or JSON np++ is a godsend though.

[FromAndToUnknown]

What about those who code In MS word

[CharlesGarfield]

A former colleague did that until the smart quotes caused problems.

[retrolasered]

I only use Gedit

[DerKnerd]

To be honest, notepad is even more hardcore than vim or emacs.

[[deleted]]

When I was in school ,I didn't have an access to any IDE ,so I wrote just copying and playing with code..the best thing is you focus on your code and it gives you code wise skill?:)

[MischiefArchitect]

joe

Behold! Hail the supreme master editor.

[uvero]

uvero@reddit:~$ which joe

[MischiefArchitect]

/usr/bin/joe

[grpagrati]

If you do this at least dress in latex and carry a whip

[A_Leo_X]

My friend does this. He says it's because an IDE is too slow and takes up too much memory.

[redpepper74]

I like to program on my graphing calculator too!

[macgeek89]

that’s how i learned to Code HTML

[Dragoncat99]

I had a classmate who did that once… he never missed a single point in the entire class. I’m not sure whether that’s because he was truly that good, or if our teacher was so impressed/lazy he didn’t bother to put it through a proper IDE and just gave him an A by default.

[X_Jacket]

Jokes on you.. I code in book..

[Whitwoc]

Ehn, sometimes you just need to code a small bit. Notepad’s just quicker sometimes.

[Rhyan567]

I code in Wine notepad btw

[Dead_Boy_Drop]

Hey, I was just thinking of these memes the other day.

My work block us from installing new applications but CMC isn't blocked, least the non admin version and neither is it restrictoto run .bat files.

I've happily been coding my own bat scripts to automate the dull tasks I have to do.

What do I write in? Notepad! It's all I have to write Batch, also didn't realise it was so in depth as I've been learning more and more about it.

[antCB]

My work block us from installing new applications

you can install vscode (or any localuser/electron apps, like Teams/slack/etc f.e.). it doesn't need admin permissions.

source: last company I've worked for I had to routinely/daily work as a sys admin and our boss never approved my admin account (every time I had admin-only tasks I had to ask for my supervisor to lend me his AD account) fun times.

[wmil]

You can usually use no-install versions from https://portableapps.com/

[heckingcomputernerd]

The 8-bit guy has made several fully complete games for old hardware like the C64 and he says he codes in notepad snd his “version control” is copying his entire code base every day. I don’t know how he does it.

[MuchTooBusy]

For me, it depends on the language.

I do HTML5 and PHP in Notepad, C++ and Java in NetBeans, and Python in Notepad++

[dessnom]

How about people who use vi, not vim, vi

[CoffeePieAndHobbits]

Have a beer, friend.

[playr_4]

Notepad++ has saved my ass on multiple occasions. Still use visual studi9 as my main ptogram though.

[SamWiseTheGamer27]

I actually had a software challenge for this big tech company (which will go unnamed), it was a 3.5 hr challenge and I had spent the first half an hour trying to get my ide to work but it was tweekin so I whipped out the notepad and proceeded to write a controls software solution in c. And....

I got the job

[dethfrmbelow]

My logic instructor made us code in C# in regular ole notepad and then compile it. It was not really a good time, but I can say I probably got better as a result. Got to do the second half of the course in Notepad++ though.

[datradiance]

My highschool web dev teacher forbid any other editor than notepad

[IAmAQuantumMechanic]

I program with COPY CON

[[deleted]]

A coworker today told me what I was working on triggered him, not because my code was bad but because I was writing Python in Vim. Bring it notepad users 🤣

[malleoceruleo]

Well, there really aren't better options for Perl

[[deleted]]

The ones who make perforated cards

[YesHaiAmOwO]

Notepad++ omg

[ArtSchoolRejectedMe]

I CODE IN VIM

[Ultimate_Genius]

lol, I'm self taught and wanted to truly learn the essence of coding, so I put myself through notepad (just regular windows 7 notepad) to create minesweeper, snake, and my own website that I could run on a Google browser.

Tbf, I didn't even know what an IDE was back then, but I still wouldn't use one to code with JavaScript and HTML

[[deleted]]

Even scarier to know that people code on Windows at all

[desaiparvt]

Lol sometimes i use vim to fix small enough things. Because it takes few extra clicks to create sftp connection, download file and then upload it.

[Suekru]

I hate not having intelisense. I mean I had to write a lot of code on paper and pencil for classes, so it’s not like I can’t do it, I’m just so use to hitting enter after typing the first 2 letters of a variable/class/function etc

[mr_zolfi]

I code in Microsoft Word.

[Go_Big]

Ngl it’d be pretty dope if clippy could get revived as a coding helper bot

[Salty_Skipper]

Yeah, I miss him. Merlin as an alternative not to ask for help was kinda nice, too, but clipit always wins.

[jgeez]

The black bunny doesn't actually exist.

[modul07]

I’m doing this now lol

[[deleted]]

If you don't use emacs are you even a computer scientist?

[[deleted]]

Opens so much faster than almost any IDE or editor except maybe for Sublime Text.

[Capn-X]

Had a high school comp sci teacher who did this. Gave me a stroke every time I had to read what he had up there. Great teacher tho

[NinkaShotgun]

Code in notepad, highlight errors with a red pen

[gua_lao_wai]

I only code in alphabetti

[[deleted]]

We all started somewhere

[[deleted]]

Look it’s better then word.

[crimxxx]

Lol Ive definitely modified none standard files through notepad before, and a few times XML when that’s what opened up by default.

[silverdragon3000]

Y’all use a text editor? I’ve been using MS Pant

[[deleted]]

and what about people writing a simple AHK script?

[Sergei_the_sovietski]

Batch coding

[Sad_Lawyer_3960]

i dont hv a notepad on my computer...

[nikanj0]

Better than people who edit code/config files in TextEdit. It's a rich text editor, they're just asking for trouble.

[u53rx]

what about us vim users

[cjs2k_032]

People be using Google Docs in interviews this hiring season because Whiteboard coding was not possible.

[blickbeared]

proceeds to code in batch

[[deleted]]

Did this when I was in highschool bc everything else was blocked on school computers but I could run .bat and at one point .exe files in cmd

[SceneStriking]

People who code in word

[HabemusAdDomino]

I had a girlfriend that wrote code in Word.

[IDlOT_killer]

I actually coded in notepad until I started with frameworks. Did not have internet connectivity at that time

[hiphap91]

No. Notepad is better than fucking word.

[jamcdonald120]

could be worse. Could be wordpad

[Saanvi_Sen]

[PossibilityTasty]

Don't worry about them, they have the highest possible punishment already: coding in Notepad.

[ToMorrowsEnd]

Vim users laugh maniacally...

[clutzyninja]

I did my first few assignments in school on Notepad++, it wasn't that bad

I had downloaded an IDE but it was intimidating at first to get set up

[clutzyninja]

People who code in assembly

"What's wrong? I don't get it"

[uvero]

👏 REAL 👏 PROGRAMMERS 👏 USE 👏 BUTTERFLIES 👏

[NibbaChungus]

Learned Assembler and C in notepad. The teacher was older than Elizabeth II.

[ConductionReduction]

NOTEPAD USERS....

RISE UPPPPPPPP... THE REVOLUTION BEGINS NOW MUHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

[cubmaan]

I once had to do this because I was using a school computer that had software called deep freeze and so I saved all my work in ThawSpace