Dealing with Program Development Tools

As I mentioned earlier, you should use a text editor to create C++ source code. This code is compiled by a C++ compiler that will generate error messages if your source code has syntactic errors and will enable you to run your program if there are no syntax errors. In this section, we will look at more sophisticated tools that you can use for creating and running a C++ program. I will explain the role of each tool and the way to use these tools most effectively. Of course, the specifics depend on whether you use command-line assorted tools (e.g., the GNU compiler under UNIX) or an Integrated Development Environment (the Microsoft IDE under Windows).

Many development environments require (or suggest) that ...

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