Programmers - What are your essential resources?

ClarkeKent

Looking to get into coding and I am interested in the tools/sites/extensions/programs/social media/blogs that are essential to you, as a coder/programmer.

Here are one or two I have come across so far and examples:

Applications - Notepad++, Winmerge
Chrome/Firefox Extensions - What Font, Eye Dropper
Learning Resources - Lynda.com, Udemy, CodeSchool
Forums - http://www.warriorforum.com/programming/
Websites/Blogs - Mashable

Will hopefully be a good resource for new tools to try and for newbies to look at.

Please list your favs, Thankyou

paddyrg

Possible useful tool for some - hexedit - imagine if notepad++ could look at binary values ;-)

Mirno

#1 - Google!
#2 - vi
#3 - the tool chain for the language/target of choice.

SalarySlave

Netbeans is a compiler that will let you write code and see results n Java c C++ c# etc

Google tutorials in whichever language you are interested in.

Cycrow

It depends what im working on really.

for iOS, i would be using XCode,
for android it'll be Eclipse
and for most other things i will be using Visual Studio.

Main resource i use would be StackExchange. plus the main sites of what ever API im using at the time.

A large amount of screen space is also useful, large resolution displays + multiple monitors

Mr_Toad

My main editor of choice is Vi but only because it's on every *nix box on the planet by default.

For Windows I use Notepad++ a lot of the younger programers use Notepad++ for the *nix then upload the file to the server rather than learn how to use Vi. It's a personal choice.

On my Linux box at home I used Gedit and Vi.

ClarkeKent

Nearly every StackExchange post I have seen has had a "warning" or been closed.