Programmer's Survival Guide for Windows CMD Shell, File System & Source-code Editors Part 4

4.  Source-Code Editors (for Windows)

A program editor (or source code editor) is programming language sensitive and context-aware. It highlights the syntax elements of your programs; and provides many features that aid in your program development (such as auto-complete, compile/build/run, help menu, etc.). On the other hand, a plain text editor, such as "NotePad", is not language-sensitive and, therefore, is NOT suitable for writing programs. For full-scale software development, you should use an appropriate IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
It is important to use a mono-space font (such as "Courier New", "Consola") for programming, so that the columns are properly aligned.
There are tons of free program editors available. Here are some program editors that I am currently using. Unfortunately, there isn't one magic wane (or silver bullet) that suits all my programming needs.

Programmer's Survival Guide for Windows CMD Shell, File System & Source-code Editors Part 3

3.  Keyboard Shortcuts (for Windows)

Good programmers uses keyboard shortcuts instead of mouse to perform most of the editing tasks, such as positioning the cursor, selecting texts, copy and paste. Below are the frequently-used keyboard shortcuts for the programmers.

Programmer's Survival Guide for Windows CMD Shell, File System & Source-code Editors Part 2

2.  File System and Commands

 In Windows, files are organized in directories (aka folders). The directories are organized in a hierarchical tree structure, starting from the so-called root directory for each of the hard drive (as illustrated). A directory may contain sub-directories and files. A sub-directory may contain sub-sub-directories and files, and so on.

Programmer's Survival Guide for Windows CMD Shell, File System & Source-code Editors Part 1

1.  Command Prompt - CMD

Programmers use a Command-Line Shell to issue commands, instead of clicking on Graphical User Interface (GUI). This is because command-line is much more flexible and powerful than graphical interface.