Code Editor

An advanced text editing software that is specifically designed to aids the programmer/developer to write/edit source code and  perform special checks on the source code in a certain programming language. It makes it convenient for the development process by providing a way to run interpreters, translators, compilers, debuggers and other software development programs. It may be a stand-alone application or built into an Integrated Development Environment(IDE). One of the advantages as a programmer when using the  code editor is syntax highlighting, auto-complete feature, formatting of code blocks(indenting), etc. Most popular and well-known IDEs ;-

• Notepad++(Windows) - Can write/edit very many programming languages.
• NetBeans(UNIX, Windows)
• Eclipse(UNIX, Windows)
• IntelliJ IDEA(UNIX, Windows, Mac OS)
• Microsoft Visual Studio(Windows)