C++ IDEs
There are many Integrated Development
Environments for programming in C++. What follows is a list of some of the
popular ones, all of these are (legally) free to install. Most of these
products also allow you to develop in other programming languages so it is
important to read the options carefully when creating a programming project.
For this course, we are going to create programs that can be run in a Terminal –
usually refereed to as a Console program in Windows.
Visual Studio – this is the one I usually
use (though not for CMPT 130). This isn’t an endorsement it is just that it is
the IDE I am most familiar with. You can either get this IDE directly from
Microsoft: Visual
Studio Community. Or, access it through the software provided for free to
students registered in a CMPT course. For that look at the appropriate page on
the SFU CS website: http://www.sfu.ca/computing/about/support/csil/windows/how-to-get-software.html.
Or you can use Google to search for C++
IDEs – you will get a lot of hits! Here is just
one example.
While some of the IDEs listed above can be
installed on a Mac, Apple make an IDE called XCode which
can be used to develop C++ programs. It can be downloaded for free.
John Edgar (johnwill@sfu.ca)