An excellent alternative to Notepad, Programmer’s Notepad offers a versatile programming environment.

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Programmer’s Notepad allows you to create multiple file types and provides syntax highlighting for a great variety of languages such as C++, PHP, HTML, and so much more. You can also create and manage projects. You can open multiple files in Programmer’s Notepad and they’ll appear as tabs. You can create coding templates, create themes, tags, scripts, and so much more.

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If you haven’t heard of Johnny Chung Lee, you must be under a rock. Johnny is a Ph.D. student who focuses on Human-Computer Interaction. Be sure to check out his webpage here.

To make things short, Johnny has made several projects anyone can make in their own home with the appropriate resources and it isn’t costly. His most known projects have been the things he has done with Wii Remotes. I’ll put the videos since he explains what he is doing with them.