January 2013
Beginner to intermediate
64 pages
1h 10m
English
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Chapter 1. Getting Started
Since the journey of 1,000 lines of code begins with the first keystroke, it’s probably best to learn a little bit about the award-winning company responsible for the inspiration of this book.
About Panic
Coda was created by Panic, a small company that hails from Portland, Oregon. Its founders are Cabel Sasser and Steven Frank, who started the company in 1997.
Panic makes a handful of apps in addition to Coda, all of which run exclusively on the Mac:
- Transmit
- A top-notch file transfer application that works with FTP, SFTP, and Amazon’s S3 service
- Unison
- A client for Usenet, the oldest internet messaging board
The company also has gotten into developing for iOS in the last few years:
- Prompt
- An SSH client
- Diet Coda
- A stripped down but powerful little brother to Coda 2
There are also “retired apps,” which include Stattoo, a kind of dashboard on the desktop, Desktastic, a fun little app for drawing on your desktop, and Candy Bar, a utility for changing and organizing icons across your system. In addition, there is Transmit 1.7 for Mac OS 9 and Audion 3, one of the first MP3 players. For a cool story about Audion and its history with iTunes, read The True Story of Audion. You can download older versions of Panic’s apps here.
Installation
A fully-functional, seven-day trial version of Coda is available from Panic’s website. To clarify, if you launched Coda on a Monday, quit the app, then launched it on Wednesday, that would only count as two days of the trial. ...
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