3. Coding tools
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Free tools are completely free to use with all features.
Freeware tools include basic functionality for free. Additional features may need to be paid for.
Open source tools are developed in a collaborative manner and can be used, modified or shared openly. This software can be used for free and often includes a lot of support documentation.
Paid tools can only be used after purchasing, and agreeing to, a product licence.
There are many different coding and development platforms available. If you need to learn a particular coding language, visit Types of assignments or one of the following resources.
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Web development
| Tool | Useful features | In-person training | Online tutorial | Cost |
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| NotePad++ | NotePad++ is a free source code editor for Windows that supports over 50+ languages. | No | Notepad++ resources | |
| Koding | Koding is a cloud development environment that supports Apache, PHP, MySQL, Node.js, Perl and Python, with any other language being able to be added as required. | No | Koding documentation | |
| replit | Build, test, and deploy directly from the browser | No | Getting Started with Replit: Intro to All Major Features (YouTube, 4m 54s) | |
| JSFiddle | JSFiddle is an online community for testing and showcasing code. It supports JavaScript. | No | JSFiddle docs and help | |
Software development
| Tool | Useful features | In-person training | Online tutorial | Cost |
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| Visual Studio | Visual Studio has a family of products that can be used to create applications for any platform in any language. It can be used to create software, mobile apps, games, browser extensions and more. | No | Learning to code with Visual Studio. Learning Visual Studio Code (LinkedIn Learning, 1h20m). |
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| Lazarus | Lazarus allows you to develop applications of any type. It can be used on Windows, Mac, Linux and FreeBSD. | No | Lazarus tutorials | |
| IntelliJ | IntelliJ is another Integrated Development Environment (IDE) like Lazarus, it includes auto-completion and support for error analysis. | No | Overview of IntelliJ IDEA (YouTube, 5m46s). Learn and support. |
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Mobile application development
| Tool | Useful features | In-person training | Online tutorial | Cost |
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| Adapty | Adapty has free and paid plans. It offers low-code SDKs for React Native, Flutter, Unity, and other major stacks to power these frameworks with full-scale and customisable subscriptions and analytics infrastructure in iOS and Android native apps. | No | Adapty Quickstart Guide | |
| NativeScript | NativeScript is another open-source tool for creating Android, Windows and iOS applications. Using NativeScripts allows you to build apps using JavaScript/Angular/TypeScript. | No | NativeScript Documentation | |
