ide

C++

“A manager is an assistant to his men” Thomas J. Watson

IDEs stands for Integrated Development Environment and they’re basically your assistant when writing codes to develop a program in a specific language.

Note: IDEs are usually capable of working with multiple programming languages but not all of them.

You see, a programing language like C++, has many keywords, structures, libraries etc. and memorizing all of them and how to use them is somehow difficult. Also when working on a large project, there’s a chance that we might forget to use a keyword or use a structure in wrong way here and there within the source code and finding these little mistakes if we don’t use an IDE can be really hard.

This is where IDEs can be really helpful. An IDE knows the syntax of its programming language that is built for and if we for example misspell a keyword or use a structure in a wrong way, the IDE is smart enough to alert us and highlight the place where the mistake happened so that we easily see and fix the problem.

Also some of the IDEs are so smart that they guess what you want to write by just seeing a few keywords you wrote and they will suggest lines of prewritten codes that you can simply select and it will be placed in your code automatically which is another way of increasing the speed of developing a program.

Here’s the list of some of the IDEs that can be used to build C++ programs:

Note: we just included some of the known IDEs for C++ programming, but remember there are more IDEs out there that you can use.

You can also write C++ codes in a simple notepad but such simple program does not bring any advanced tools like those that IDEs bring to the table and so working with notepad can be really painful (finding and fixing bugs especially) if the source code gets lengthy.