Editors

Editors are many to choose from. Visual Studio Code, Atom, Sublime, Brackets... as well as IDEs.

Best advice: Choose one and stick to it.

Some considerations to help in your choices are:

1. Personalization: Does it have themes? Can I customize it?

2. Developer assistance: - Syntax highlighting - How extensible is it?

Get to know its Keyboard shortcuts, create custom snippets and if it is a hackable one you can satisfy your inner hacker. You might want to set Auto-saving. This is opinionated.

Installing wakatime ( a tool that integrates into your editor) will let you evaluate your development time specific to Programming language and file(s).

With a group of three (or more on a paid tier) you can create a leaderboard where you'll get to see your partners progress and the hours they spend coding.