I'm not a big user of code snippets, but I know developers who are. I've noticed those developers often don't use the default value supplied for the variable part of the snippet (What! All your ...

So you’re a designer or a developer and you daily need to deal with code and text snippets: that’s very likely to happen. From CSS to HTML, from Javascript to Ruby, you just can’t remember every piece ...

As near as I can tell, very few developers create their own Visual Studio code snippets. There's a reason for that: the XML you have to wrap around code snippet is a real pain to write. Fortunately, ...

If you maintain scripts in multiple languages, switch between projects, or just hate Googling the same code solutions repeatedly, a snippet manager is a lifesaver. While there are many options out ...

Visual Studio Code is a great, free, cross-platform, open source code editor with an extensive library of prebuilt extensions for all kinds of useful, add-on functionality. Sometimes, however, you don ...

Tom Ball, software engineering research manager from Microsoft Research, led a one-day MakeCode workshop on March 2, at the ATLAS Laboratory for Playful Computation. The packed room included students ...