2 hours ago
Liam took the computer at her offering and nodded he'd show her how to use it. It really wasn't something he would need to at least not at first. He downloaded the best free software IDE out there. "This is just an intelligent development editor. It can have AI if you want it to, but you should start with the basics. It can help you debug better."
Liam installed the program and opened up her code in it. The plain boring text that she had was now lit with colors. "The colors help you identify functions, and variables and like spell checking in everything these days, we get errors that are stupid, like missing semicolons, a wrong quote, stupid things we all miss."
Liam scrolled through her code looking for something. "So a typo in a variable name can often be a problem. You use it correctly in one place and in the other it's wrong but you've missed it lots of times. See this greyed out variable here. It means it's not used so if you intended to use if you did use it it's either typed wrong here, or where ever it is you would use it. But the good thing is you'll get another visual cue where it is that it's wrong."
Liam pushed the computer back to her. "It can do a lot more. And I can show you how to do it more, but first try with the visual cues. It's no different than what you were doing, just prettier. We can set up debug environments and tests and automations and all sorts of things later. But that's a whole thing unto itself."
Liam installed the program and opened up her code in it. The plain boring text that she had was now lit with colors. "The colors help you identify functions, and variables and like spell checking in everything these days, we get errors that are stupid, like missing semicolons, a wrong quote, stupid things we all miss."
Liam scrolled through her code looking for something. "So a typo in a variable name can often be a problem. You use it correctly in one place and in the other it's wrong but you've missed it lots of times. See this greyed out variable here. It means it's not used so if you intended to use if you did use it it's either typed wrong here, or where ever it is you would use it. But the good thing is you'll get another visual cue where it is that it's wrong."
Liam pushed the computer back to her. "It can do a lot more. And I can show you how to do it more, but first try with the visual cues. It's no different than what you were doing, just prettier. We can set up debug environments and tests and automations and all sorts of things later. But that's a whole thing unto itself."