Noob Friendly IDE

[duckwithanokhat]

So at my school, I use xCode for my computer science class, but I'm running a windows PC at home, so what would be a good alternative to xCode?

[SleepyStoner]

notepad ++

[79wjd]

eclipse

intelliJ

[duckwithanokhat]

10 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

eclipse

intelliJ

Do these work with C? Because that is the language I'm learning.

[79wjd]

4 minutes ago, duckwithanokhat said:

Do these work with C? Because that is the language I'm learning.

yes

[Azgoth 2]

I don't know xCode, so I can't say how it compares, Microsoft's Visual Studio is a pretty great IDE you might want to look at.  it's built mostly for C++ and C#, but you can tell it to treat your code as pure C code (I don't know how offhand, but I know you can).

[mathijs727]

8 hours ago, SleepyStoner said:

notepad ++

That's not an IDE.

 

From the IDE's i've used (Clion/Xcode/Visual Studio),I greatly prefer Visual Studiio.

If you're working on a laptop dont use Clion, on my Macbook it drains battery, even in the background (20% CPU usage) end on my (Windows) desktop it uses 3GB RAM at startup and crashes after 10 seconds.

[mathijs727]

40 minutes ago, Erik Sieghart said:

You mean don't use it on a Macbook.

 

I've never had issues on Windows laptops.

It uses tons of CPU and couple GB RAM and then crashes on my WINDOWS desktop.

So it can be slow/instable on all operating systems...

 

It's a shame because I think it is still the best crossplatform IDE and Android Studio is based on it.

[savstars]

I would have to second CLion as a great IDE for C/C++.  Very flexible and not to complex.

[thermophobe]

Check Code::Blocks. Ideal for C and C++. Else notepad/notepad++ is your friend.

[VulsaviiK]

On 03/09/2016 at 3:52 PM, Azgoth 2 said:

I don't know xCode, so I can't say how it compares, Microsoft's Visual Studio is a pretty great IDE you might want to look at.  it's built mostly for C++ and C#, but you can tell it to treat your code as pure C code (I don't know how offhand, but I know you can).

I will say on that note, that Visual Studio ONLY allows you to use Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler. In most circumstances this won't be an issue, however if it's for a subject/studies, when you submit code there's usually a disclaimer mentioning your code must compile using X compiler on Y platform.

 

OP will need to download Cygwin, since I'm assuming his course uses the GNU GCC compiler

 

https://cygwin.com/

 

Also, for anyone saying use Notepad++ as an IDE, Notepad++ is not an IDE.

 

For IDEs, my two recommendations are Eclipse and Code::Blocks for C.

 

That said, you may like to use a separate text editor, then use the IDE to build/debug (I sometimes do this, depending on what I'm doing). Particularly helpful if you don't know how to build on command line. In which case, I'd recommend looking into Github's Atom and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (Which isn't the same thing as Visual Studio).

 

I mean, I usually use Vim as my text editor, but I'm weird, no judge plox

[mathijs727]

54 minutes ago, VulsaviiK said:

I will say on that note, that Visual Studio ONLY allows you to use Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler. In most circumstances this won't be an issue, however if it's for a subject/studies, when you submit code there's usually a disclaimer mentioning your code must compile using X compiler on Y platform.

 

OP will need to download Cygwin, since I'm assuming his course uses the GNU GCC compiler

 

https://cygwin.com/

 

Also, for anyone saying use Notepad++ as an IDE, Notepad++ is not an IDE.

 

For IDEs, my two recommendations are Eclipse and Code::Blocks for C.

 

That said, you may like to use a separate text editor, then use the IDE to build/debug (I sometimes do this, depending on what I'm doing). Particularly helpful if you don't know how to build on command line. In which case, I'd recommend looking into Github's Atom and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (Which isn't the same thing as Visual Studio).

 

I mean, I usually use Vim as my text editor, but I'm weird, no judge plox

If you write modern C/C++ there is no reason to not use Visual Studio.

C/C++ is cross platform, except for some file system API limitations.

[boghy933]

I usually use Code Blocks on windows. 

[CrimsonMaple]

I personally use Atom, and Notepad++ but that's not an ide specifically. 

[duckwithanokhat]

On 9/6/2016 at 9:47 AM, VulsaviiK said:

I will say on that note, that Visual Studio ONLY allows you to use Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler. In most circumstances this won't be an issue, however if it's for a subject/studies, when you submit code there's usually a disclaimer mentioning your code must compile using X compiler on Y platform.

 

OP will need to download Cygwin, since I'm assuming his course uses the GNU GCC compiler

 

https://cygwin.com/

 

Also, for anyone saying use Notepad++ as an IDE, Notepad++ is not an IDE.

 

For IDEs, my two recommendations are Eclipse and Code::Blocks for C.

 

That said, you may like to use a separate text editor, then use the IDE to build/debug (I sometimes do this, depending on what I'm doing). Particularly helpful if you don't know how to build on command line. In which case, I'd recommend looking into Github's Atom and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (Which isn't the same thing as Visual Studio).

 

I mean, I usually use Vim as my text editor, but I'm weird, no judge plox

I downloaded code::blocks, and set up mingw. Question: what is mingw? Is that the compiler? And if I have mingw setup could I install Eclipse/Clion and just start coding, or will I have to download Cygwin? Thanks

[SpaceNugget]

On 2016-09-06 at 10:42 AM, mathijs727 said:

If you write modern C/C++ there is no reason to not use Visual Studio.

C/C++ is cross platform, except for some file system API limitations.

IMO there is no reason TO use Visual Studio for the type of project you might do as a beginner. I would take Visual Studio code over Visual Studio any day. That being said I prefer vi/vim/nvim.

[mathijs727]

2 hours ago, WaxyMaxy said:

IMO there is no reason TO use Visual Studio for the type of project you might do as a beginner. I would take Visual Studio code over Visual Studio any day. That being said I prefer vi/vim/nvim.

Visual Studio contains some really awesome debugging tools though, like data breakpoints and graphics (directx) debugging.

[Nineshadow]

On 9/10/2016 at 7:51 AM, duckwithanokhat said:

I downloaded code::blocks, and set up mingw. Question: what is mingw? Is that the compiler? And if I have mingw setup could I install Eclipse/Clion and just start coding, or will I have to download Cygwin? Thanks

Yes, you can configure Eclipse to use whatever compiler you want.

I still recommend Code::Blocks though.