antzFxWay.com | You have seen nothing yet! » offline reference http://antzfxway.com The Design Blog of antzFx.com | Celebrating 2 years online Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:45:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Part 2: Editing tools and Lookup materials for becoming a web programmer http://antzfxway.com/2009/12/03/part-2-editing-tools-and-lookup-materials-for-becoming-a-web-programmer/ http://antzfxway.com/2009/12/03/part-2-editing-tools-and-lookup-materials-for-becoming-a-web-programmer/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:46:40 +0000 fullfx http://fullfx.antzfx.com/?p=724 Among the many things that play a crucial role in maintaining the flow of development, the choice of an editor and reference document are undoubtedly the most important. Today we will discuss them.

(This tutorial is a part of the series – “How to become a web programmer in 4 easy steps” . Read previous post here.)

Choice of an Editor

My stints with text editors always ended in disaster until I used Notepad++; and I fell in love with it.

notepad++

Notepad++ is the best text editing software in its category. It boasts of a lot of features including support for a whopping 48 scripting languages and portability.

Reference Material

A reference always comes handy – especially if it is available offline. Free offline materials are hard to find. Given below is a collection of offline and online reference material for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.

Reference Offline Source Online Source
     
HTML XHTML

HTML 5

HTML 4

 w3schools.com
     
CSS CSS2 w3schools.com
     
JavaScript Mozilla.org w3schools.com
     
PHP PHP Reference (CHM) php.net

What’s next?

In Part 3 we will learn how to do debugging when it is required.

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