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Writing the program

Started by June 14, 2002 07:50 PM
14 comments, last by MasterJediR2D2 22 years, 6 months ago
Hello, im a newbie. this is a stupid question but im gonna ask it anyway. In what program do I actually write the code?
You can use just any text editor to write your code in.
Then, you need a compiler which will turn your code into an executable.

The compiler is the part that matters.

What compiler to use ? Well, it depends on the language you want to program in, on whether you want to pay for it, and so on.

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quote: Original post by Fruny
You can use just any text editor to write your code in.
Then, you need a compiler which will turn your code into an executable.

The compiler is the part that matters.

What compiler to use ? Well, it depends on the language you want to program in, on whether you want to pay for it, and so on.

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Do I have to buy text editors? and are there any that are already installed onto windows 98?


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By text editor Fruny literally meant "anything that lets you type text and save the result to a file." The only difference for major products like MS Visual C++ is that the text editors are...quite a lot fancier . They perform the basic operation of letting you type in things and save them, but include other nice things like highlighting your code and displaying tree views, etc.
Already installed :
- notepad
- wordpad

Free download (and somewhat more suited to editing code)

- GNU Emacs for Win32

g++ compiler for win32 (command line)

- MinGW
- Cygwin g++

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quote: Original post by Alimonster
By text editor Fruny literally meant "anything that lets you type text and save the result to a file."


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Your best bet is to get yourself a copy of Microsoft Visual C++ 6, its good, its cheap and its easy to use! You can probably pick up a cheap student license for about £30!

No flaming from anti-microsoft fanatics plz!



bangz.
http://www.bloodshed.com or .net im not realy sure! ;-)
And there are they're are a lot of compilers you can download

[edit]Dev-C++ you can download legally so, f*** *ff...

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[edited by - Michalson on June 15, 2002 7:58:00 AM]

[edited by - pipo declown on June 15, 2002 10:54:43 AM]
quote: Original post by Pipo DeClown
they''re are a lot of compilers you can download of kazaa, or elsewhere....


Pipo, I''d reccomend you to not say things like that again, especially in a DEVELOPMENT forum! heh.

It''s illegal and you know it.
What''s illegal? Downloading from kazaa?
no way!

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