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In this video, you'll learn about the basics of Workspaces. You'll also learn how to launch a Workspace from a Treehouse course or launch a Workspace to practice on your own.
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[SOUND] Hi, I'm Nick.
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And in these lessons,
we are going to learn about Workspaces.
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Workspaces is an online text editor and
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development environment that
is integrated with Treehouse.
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In other words, it's the tool that helps
you write a code to make websites and
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web applications.
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You can use workspaces to follow
along with Treehouse courses.
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And you can also use it to build projects
on your own and practice coding.
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If you've never used a text editor before,
don't worry.
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In these lessons,
we'll take a closer look at workspaces and
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learn how to use its
features step-by-step.
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When you use workspaces,
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all of your code is stored online
in what we call a workspace.
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You can use workspaces on one computer and
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then pick-up where you left
off from another computer.
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Using workspaces, you can make
simple HTML and CSS websites, but
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there's also built-in support for
backend languages like Python and Ruby.
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Workspaces also has a console, so you can
use the command-line to start servers and
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run your applications.
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Again, if that doesn't make any
sense to you right now, don't worry.
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We're going to look at the features
of workspaces one at a time.
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So, let's get started.
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When you're taking a course on Treehouse,
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you can scroll down just below the video
player and click on the Workspaces tab.
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If you don't already have a workspace
associated with that video, it will say,
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looks like you need to create
a workspace for this video.
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And this is a link that you can
click on to start a new workspace.
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It will name your workspace
the same as the course and video.
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And then you can click Launch
it to start a new workspace.
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And the workspace will automatically be
loaded with the content for the course.
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You'll see a welcome message that tells
you a little bit about workspaces, but
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we can close that.
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And on the left side here,
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you'll be able to open files that
are associated with the course.
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For now,
I'm going to close this workspace, so
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that I can show you how to launch
a workspace without a course.
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On the left side here,
you can click on Workspaces, and
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then you can click the New button.
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To launch your own workspace and
work on your own projects.
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You can title your workspace, so
I'll call this, My Workspace.
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Of course, this should be your own title.
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Then you can choose what's called an
environment to start your workspace from.
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So for example,
if you're working with HTML and
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CSS, you might want to choose Front End.
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But if you're working with something
like Python, or Ruby, or PHP, or
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any of the other supported languages,
you should choose those environments.
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For now, I'll choose Front End.
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Then finally, once you've picked
an environment, you can choose a template.
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I have a lot of workspaces
I've already created.
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But if you don't have any workspaces
already, you'll see these templates here.
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Where you can start a blank workspace, or
you can use a popular front end framework.
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Like HTML5 Boilerplate, Foundation
Framework, Bootstrap and a few more.
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So I'll choose Bootstrap just for this
example, and then click Create Workspace.
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When your workspace starts up
with a template like this,
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you'll have a few files
to get you started.
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Such as the CSS for Bootstrap and
JavaScript and a few fonts.
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And then you can create your own files
as well to get started on your work.
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That was a very quick tour of workspaces,
but in the upcoming videos
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we're going to take a look at each of
the individual features one at a time
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