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Hi, I'm a beginner at C++ programming and at school we use Ubuntu to make and compile files. I want to practice at home but my laptop uses Windows 7 OS. I don't want to make my laptop a dual OS just for programming.
So what programs can I use to emulate the effect of the 'terminal' in Ubuntu? I use Notepad++ to create files but if anyone can suggest something better that'd be cool.
I need help please, I have a project due in 3 days.
You could install VmWare player, and run an ubuntu inside that.
You can do the same thing with virtualbox. You only then need your favourite distro .iso image, and you can create a VM running your second OS, as just an application under your first OS.
Both allow files to be shared quite easily.
Okay thankyou. But is there really no way to do those stuff while using Windows?
Of course there is!
If you want an IDE to automate the whole process, look at Code::Blocks or Visual Studio.
If you want to call the compiler via the command line, I'd suggest MinGW for Windows.
Install cygwin. You'll get what's basically a full Unix-like development environment under windows.
I've used Codeblocks on windows and in various Linux distros, I quite like it and also reccomend it.
I have used Cygwin at a summer school / conference on HPC on their windows machines. No complaints with that either.
You could also...very easily...wipe the Windows installation and install Ubuntu !
Lol let's not start that here. I wouldn't reccomend getting rid of a familiar OS entirely, and I do like W7 in general. I was going to suggest to the OP that he try a dual boot (if only to get the experience of setting up a dual boot laptop [can be a pain]), but I sensed he just wants utility and not ideology. That said all of my machines have (or have had) some form of Linux on them.Quote:
Originally Posted by manasij7479
It is not much pain nowadays....Quote:
(if only to get the experience of setting up a dual boot laptop [can be a pain])
The only painful part was once the partitioning.
But I was rather surprised that Fedora's Automatic options managed the partitioning for a dual boot system much more sensibly than I'd have done manually.
I suppose there is a continuum of "painful". I'm fairly comfortable with partitioning software, having learnt from mistakes along with the way. I remember that when I popped in an Ubuntu LiveCD on my laptop to show a buddy the process of letting it partition for you, it wasn't liking that my laptop with W7 had already used up 4 primary partitions (and this is before I any other OSs had been installed), had to do some fiddling.
That's all I meant. It's definitely worthwhile to learn to use partition managers, but I have no idea if the OP has the inclination or time to try.
EDIT: and I guess that's not so much a problem with partition wizards on the various Linux liveCDs, but the fact that my HP laptop actually came using up 4 primary partitions because they're too G-D cheap to give me windows CDs.
2nd EDIT: Lol at your sig, manasij