Chapter 2The Programming Environment

There are two types of environment in the context of programming: the application environment, and the programming environment. We’ll be covering the application environment in a later chapter. This part of the book will talk about the programming environment, explaining IDEs (integrated development environments) and suggesting which ones to try, explaining coding standards and exploring some command line basics. In this chapter, it all becomes slightly more technical.

The programming environment includes―but is not limited to―the people you interact with, your operating system, your code editor or IDE (more on this later), your coding standards, and generally everything that helps or hinders your work during ...

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