[TriLUG] Developer environment for starting programmer

[Ron Kelley]

Greetings all,

My son (15) has started his journey on the programming trail! He is very interested in website development - especially CSS, PHP, HTML, and MySQL.  To “stoke the fire”, I have spun up a CentOS 6.5 virtual machine for him with the typical LAMP stack.

One issue I face is his ability to work with the files remotely.  Since he does not have command over the terminal yet, editing files by hand (vi, etc) over an SSH session are a little out of his reach.  I am looking for a good IDE he can use to edit his files remotely from his laptop.  Years ago, I used MS Frontpage (yeah, I know, this is a Linux thread), but the tool was easy to use and allowed me to get my hands wet with web site building.

He is running a Mac laptop, and so I am looking for a good tool that works well on Mac.  Any pointers?

Thanks!

-Ron