Looking for a portable ide/language

[Tornation]

I need a portable ide that can run off a 64gb flash drive comfortably. I will be using this for light game development in my high school programming class. Being able to compile and run programs on the school machine (with no admin privileges) is obviously a requirement. I am open to recommendations for languages or libraries to use for this project (but i do already have a bit of experience in python, C# and Java) . 

[Tornation]

Also if a language does not need to compiled and rather just interpreted that might be even better.

[mathijs727]

One of jetbrains IDE's:

https://www.jetbrains.com/

 

They have a version of their IDE for most languages and its cross platform.

If you're gonna program C# you could have a look at Xamarin Studio and MonoDevelop (for Linux):

https://www.xamarin.com/

http://www.monodevelop.com/download/

 

If you're exclusively working on Windows I would recommend Visual Studio for C/C++/C# (also supports python but I dont know how good it is):

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx

[prolemur]

BlueJ and Java worked well for me doing my Grade 11 final project without admin privileges 

[DevBlox]

You can check out Project Rider from Jetbrains, it's their new C# IDE. It's still just in early access stage and is not perfect, but it works for me and I like it.

 

Some download links so you don't need to register:

Windows: http://download.jetbrains.com/resharper/riderRS-144.5171.exe

OS X: http://download.jetbrains.com/resharper/riderRS-144.5171.dmg

Linux: http://download.jetbrains.com/resharper/riderRS-144.5171.tar.gz

[BrightCandle]

There is no issues getting Java and an IDE running, they just require a JAVA_HOME to be set. This is true of a lot of languages, you can do it with node/ javascript as well and you can do it with Erlang among quite a few others. It often means a bit more complexity and you may need a setPath.bat file to setup a shell.

[Tornation]

3 hours ago, BrightCandle said:

There is no issues getting Java and an IDE running, they just require a JAVA_HOME to be set. This is true of a lot of languages, you can do it with node/ javascript as well and you can do it with Erlang among quite a few others. It often means a bit more complexity and you may need a setPath.bat file to setup a shell.

How would I go about getting a jdk installed on my flash drive? Only the JRE is on my schools computers.

[Tornation]

4 hours ago, DevBlox said:

You can check out Project Rider from Jetbrains, it's their new C# IDE. It's still just in early access stage and is not perfect, but it works for me and I like it.

 

Some download links so you don't need to register:

Windows: http://download.jetbrains.com/resharper/riderRS-144.5171.exe

OS X: http://download.jetbrains.com/resharper/riderRS-144.5171.dmg

Linux: http://download.jetbrains.com/resharper/riderRS-144.5171.tar.gz

Unfortunately I don't believe my school computers have the .NET framework on them and I don't believe you can get that working without admin (correct me if I am wrong)

[Tornation]

19 hours ago, mathijs727 said:

If you're exclusively working on Windows I would recommend Visual Studio for C/C++/C# (also supports python but I dont know how good it is):

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx

I was not aware visual studio could be installed on a flash drive. That might simply things if you could provide more details.

[Tornation]

I realize now I should have clarified at the start. The school computers I am talking about are running a modified version win 7 (using active directory and all that kind of stuff).

[mathijs727]

6 hours ago, Tornation said:

I was not aware visual studio could be installed on a flash drive. That might simply things if you could provide more details.

Oh sorry, my bad.

I thought you meant cross platform with the word "portable".

I didnt read the complete post (4 lines is so TL;DR .... AKA im lazy)

 

In that case you could have a look at Eclipse which im pretty sure is "portable" in that way it has support for most languages (I've used it for Java and its pretty decent):

https://eclipse.org/downloads/

 

If all you need is a text editor with fancy syntax highlighting I would strongly recommend Sublime Text 3:

https://www.sublimetext.com/3

 

The jetbrains IDE's I've mentioned are not portable out of the box but it is pretty easy to run it from a flash drive (in case your school machine doesnt have Java):

http://leolabs.org/blog/making-intellij-portable/

This guide should also work for their other IDEs as they are basically the same program.

[Tornation]

1 hour ago, mathijs727 said:

Oh sorry, my bad.

I thought you meant cross platform with the word "portable".

I didnt read the complete post (4 lines is so TL;DR .... AKA im lazy)

 

In that case you could have a look at Eclipse which im pretty sure is "portable" in that way it has support for most languages (I've used it for Java and its pretty decent):

https://eclipse.org/downloads/

 

If all you need is a text editor with fancy syntax highlighting I would strongly recommend Sublime Text 3:

https://www.sublimetext.com/3

 

The jetbrains IDE's I've mentioned are not portable out of the box but it is pretty easy to run it from a flash drive (in case your school machine doesnt have Java):

http://leolabs.org/blog/making-intellij-portable/

This guide should also work for their other IDEs as they are basically the same program.

thanks ill look into it when I get home!

[Beskamir]

This seems perfect for a cpsc workshop I'd like to do as part of Let's Talk Science. Let me know which languages and IDE's you determine to be best for a very locked down computer. Ideally I'd like to get python working since it'd be the best for "teaching" (more like getting people excited about) programming.

[Fetzie]

Eclipse can be run from the .exe without "installing" it first. You will likely need to set your java path in Eclipse and so on though if Java is not in the default location.

[Tornation]

15 hours ago, ElfFriend said:

This seems perfect for a cpsc workshop I'd like to do as part of Let's Talk Science. Let me know which languages and IDE's you determine to be best for a very locked down computer. Ideally I'd like to get python working since it'd be the best for "teaching" (more like getting people excited about) programming.

In the past I have used portable python on my school computers and it works nearly seamlessly from a usb drive or even when I just put it in my student profile folder. Although the project is no longer being developed it can be downloaded here. It includes an ide called pyscripter as well as many useful tools and modules (not that you can't install your own modules, say for example pygame). Hope this helps