I’m teaching web development courses this semester at two excellent schools: Washington University in St. Louis & Webster University. I have students in both classes using the excellent Sublime Text 2 editor. Why?

  • It’s cross-platform, so students can use it on the classroom machines, on their laptops, & at home.
  • It’s free to acquire & use, although I encourage them to buy it if they find it useful.
  • It’s powerful.
  • It runs on a USB flash drive as a portable app, which is great for my students, so they don’t have to re-configure things every time they come to class.

As I’ve really started drilling down with Sublime Text the last several months, I’ve gotten more & more impressed. I still use BBEdit too—I’ve been using that software for 15 years, & it does several things much better than Sublime Text does—but I use Sublime Text a lot. It’s good stuff (& heck, it does many things better than BBEdit does).

In order to make things easier for my students, I’ve been creating webpages on my personal site that delve into Sublime Text & what it can do. The point is, expect to start seeing links to those pages here. I’m going to keep posting articles about Sublime Text on granneman.com, but I want to surface them at Chainsaw on a Tire Swing for anyone who might find them useful or interesting.