Thread: Beginner programmer

Originally Posted by Kool4School

I had microsoft visual C++ 2008 and was loving it, but my trial ran out.

Use the Express edition then.

I use Code::Blocks or Dev Cpp if I am on windows. On Linux, i use Kwrite as the text editor and g++ as the compiler to write and compile code respectively. Dev Cpp is lightweight and very simple to use. I would suggest using that.

Originally Posted by Kool4School

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My trial ran out on the express

The Express editions do not have a time limit. They do have a time limit for registration, apparently, but registration is free.

Originally Posted by Kool4School

Code::Blocks is good? Is it easy to use? I found visual C++ to be fairly easy to use, is it comprable?

It depends on what exactly are the features you are looking for. Generally, they both are "good" and "easy to use".

Originally Posted by MeTh0Dz

Stop mixing concepts. Code::Blocks, DevCpp, and KWrite are editors/IDEs, g++ is a compiler. More than likely you are using a port of g++ in DevCpp and Code::Blocks.

Admittedly, Kool4School did not ask for suggestions for a compiler, but a "C/C++ program", which presumably means a C and C++ development environment of some sort, whether it is integrated, or some text editor with some compiler. Consequently, I see no fault in suggesting Code::Blocks, Dev-C++, and Kwrite and g++ (at the command line, presumably).

Stop mixing concepts. Code::Blocks, DevCpp, and KWrite are editors/IDEs, g++ is a compiler. More than likely you are using a port of g++ in DevCpp and Code::Blocks.

I know my concepts pretty well . He wanted a user friendly C/C++ program to code, so i pointed out that when I am on Linux, I use Kwrite and g++. Both of them are C/C++ programs which are used for writing and compiling code respectively.

P.S. Dev Cpp uses mingw as a g++ port.

Originally Posted by MeTh0Dz

Listing three editors and then a compiler

Neither Code::Blocks nor Dev-C++ is an editor

EDIT:

Originally Posted by MeTh0Dz

and not specifying the difference

Yeah, it probably would have been good to say exactly what is each tool and where to get it, but the point is moot since Kool4School managed to get an IDE working anyway. It may be a problem if Kool4School then thinks that IDE are compilers, but that might also happen if no one ever listed a compiler separately.

Listing three editors and then a compiler (and not specifying the difference) just seems nonsensical to me. But that's just me

I mentioned 2 IDEs for windows. I mentioned a text editor and a compiler for Linux. I shall edit my post if its not too clear.

Originally Posted by MeTh0Dz

Listing two IDEs, an editor, and a compiler is even more nonsensical than the set I mentioned beforehand.

Not really. The combination of an editor and a compiler is a valid development environment, though some might add a debugger, etc. Binding these separate tools together makes an IDE.