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Would Visual Studio be good for C programming?

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I personally don't use Visual Studio for C, but it does have great support for C++...

 

So it probably would be a good place to start so you are familiar with it by the time you move on to learning C++...

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I would think so, since it is good for C++.

If you are looking for alternative choices, I heard Eclipse CDT is also good (and it is free).

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Well you could use VS for a lot of C code, but I would not recommend it.  While VS has excellent support imo for C++, the only way to compile C code is basically to create a C++ project.  This might get you confused about learning C if you are allowed to do some things that C++ allows that C doesn't.  If you plan to use ANSI C, then definitely don't (ie. things like // are not allowed).

 

Personally I would recommend Eclipse or just gcc.

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For basic learning Visual Studio should be fine for C but it only just became compatible with the C99 standard (though not entirely, according to this some functions are still missing: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/19/c99-library-support-in-visual-studio-2013.aspx) so it's rather behind if you want to learn the language in depth.

Otherwise get GCC (there are Windows versions) and use something like Notepad++ to write your code (you can also set up Notepad++ to compile it for you).

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I use VS express for learning C

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Well I'm not going to get too advanced in C, I'm only using it as a stepping stone before learning C++. So I think it will work, since it does sdo C++

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You can do alot with a decent text editor that has syntax highlighting etc and a batch file to compile with. If you just want to get started with C you may find this easier than trying to work out how to use visual studio as well as learning C. For a windows text editor I would recommend notepad++.

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My answer will be NO. You should start it with Turbo C 3.0 and then Visual Studio when you move to C++

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