From the course: Learning CircuitPython with Circuit Playground Express

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- [Instructor] We've seen how easy it is to run CircuitPython programs. And that CircuitPython programs are just text files. In the remainder of the course, will focus on writing and running our own programs. For this course I'm going to be using the Atom editor. It's open source, designed for editing code and works on both Mac OS and Windows. In addition, it has an extension that makes it easy to work with CircuitPython. So let's head to the desktop to install and configure Atom. The first thing I'm going to do is open a browser and go to the Atom website, which is just atom.io. I'm going to scroll down and just click the download button. Now it downloads a zip file and I'm having it download to my desktop. And I'm going to open the zip file, which will decompress it and then there's no need for the zip file anymore so I'll just delete that. And here's the Atom editor. So I'm going to close the browser.…

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