I don’t understand what the starting point is. Do they just open a word document and start creating lines of code or is there some type of program that’s specifically used?
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And IDE is probably what you want as beginner. But for completeness’s sake I have given a full explanation.
There’s 2 pieces here. You generally have lines of code in some programming language. They can be written in most text editors. Then you have either a compiler or an interpreter. A compiler will take the text file(s) and convert it to a machine executable program (.exe if you are on windows) which you can then run or a library for another program to reference. And in the case of the interpreter, it simple executes the code directly.
So you can work either with these things as separate pieces, OR you can combine all of them into an Integrated Development Environment. Aka an IDE. Visual Studio is an IDE because it allows to you edit the text files, and then compile and run the program all from one single place. There are other IDE’s such as PyCharm for example. Many of InteliJ’s Products are IDE’s for various programming languages. Visual Studio Code is a text editor that has a plugin system and if you add the right plugins, it can transform into an IDE for your favorite programming language.
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