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What is an integrated development environment?

In this activity, you'll be learning all about the exciting world of integrated development environments (IDEs).

In this activity, you’ll be learning all about the exciting world of integrated development environments (IDEs). You’ll learn all about what they are, what they ‘integrate’, and explore some of the different popular IDEs that you might encounter in your coding journey.

But that’s not all! You’ll also have a chance to get hands-on with an old code editing tool called Vim and experience just how far development environments have come since then.

To start, in the video above Amy explains what an IED is.

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Working with Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

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