Text Editors

While Pyret files can be edited online, most code is edited within a “Text Editor”. A Text Editor gives you a way of editing the raw text in a file. You will need to use a text editor for the second half of the course which will be in Python, and for a few exercises early in the course.

Windows or Mac

1. Download Atom from this link.
2. Install Atom.

Department Machines

1. Open a terminal using ctrl-alt-t
2. Open atom by typing atom then pressing enter in the Terminal.

Using Atom

Atom works like many other file editors; you make new files, edit them, and save them.

To make a new file, you can go to File > New File or press ctrl-n (or cmd-n on Mac). Save the file with File > Save. If the question asks for a file called hello.txt, make sure you write hello.txt, not hello in the Save As box.