Do I need Notepad++ or Sublime Text2 to script or is it just helpful?

[drunken toad]

I'm angered at how difficult it looks to set up notedpad++ and sublime text 2 to work with papyrus in the creation kit wiki, there's a lot of room for error, and the papyrus tutorial wants me to save and compile a script using one of these programs. and I'm wondering do i even need to use them? because in the tutorial it wants me to resurrect two draugrs when walking through a trigger activator. My problem is since I couldn't figure out a way to add my script to the pull down when clicking add new script, I tried creating a new script, But the property is set on Object reference and there is no pulldown option when it needs to be extendsActor when I try to manually do so I get an error. What is going on? Do I need these programs? If so how did you get them to work? and if I don't need them how do I get around the problem? sorry for my long message any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Lodakai]

You do not need them.  They are just helpful. 

EDIT: You can compile scripts directly from within the creation kit.

EDIT2:  This might be useful http://www.creationkit.com/Notepad%2B%2B_Setup

[Guest kimbale]

Scripts (or rather script source files) are plain, unformatted text.

Using Notepad++, you can get automatic formatting and syntax marking (same colors for same objects).

Thus these programs aren't needed but make working with scripts a lot easier. Just imagine reading a newspaper that is a solid block of text, when you only want to read the sports part.