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+title: "Building a Static Website - Part 2: Development Environment"
+date: 2023-07-22T01:51:15-06:00
+author: Charles Ancheta
+description: My 4-part series on how to build a website
+draft: true
+---
+
+To start, we would need an application to easily edit text files, a _text
+editor_. If you're new to text files, read the upcoming section for some
+introduction to computer technology 😁
+
+## Text Files
+
+Text files, as opposed to binary files, do not need any special applications to
+work with. If you've ever used Windows and Microsoft Office, think about the
+difference between opening a Word Document (.docx) and opening a _README_ file
+from some obscure application you've downloaded from the Internet. The Word
+Document needs to be opened through Microsoft Word (or Google Docs if you're
+broke), while the _README_ file can be opened by Notepad, WordPad, Microsoft
+Word, or even your web browser. It is the most flexible file format and what
+most programmers would want to work with, since they can choose whatever text
+editor they want to use.
+
+## Text Editor
+
+While it's possible to do development with only Notepad and Command Prompt, (or
+TextEdit and Terminal for Mac, or Gedit and GNOME Terminal for Ubuntu, etc.),
+we would want to use a saner option, which is a text editor designed for
+coding. At the time of writing, [Visual Studio
+Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) is the most popular and the easiest to
+start with. It's what I used when I started programming and what I currently
+use for work, although I use [Neovim](https://neovim.io/) for simple text
+editing and personal projects.
+
+To install Visual Studio Code, follow the instructions on the
+[website](https://code.visualstudio.com/download).
+
+## Version Control System
+