We now have our operating system installed and our RSA key set up. The following guides provide some optional tools and compilers you can now install onto Raspbian, including a guide to install Fortran.
While editing and running code on your Raspberry Pi, having a good code and text-editing tool is very useful. By default the Raspberry Pi comes installed with a text-editor called nano. You can read more about nano at:
Vim is also a text editing tool—especially good for programming—with a wide variety of functions and features, including the ability to run shell commands while you are editing a file.
For those interested in checking out Vim, you can read more at:
To install Vim from the terminal line run the following command:
sudo apt-get install vim
Throughout this book we will be using Vim to edit files; however, feel free to use nano or whichever tool you are most comfortable with.