Easy to use IDE for C++

[Rickdog]

I'm looking for an easy to use (intuitive) editor, compiler, debugger rolled into one suitable for a beginning C++ student. Many years ago I programmed with the old Borland Turbo Pascal compiler/editor and it was very easy to use. It was like a word processor with a basic GUI to compile and run.

Would Anjuta be something like this? I don't want to spend a lot of time learning esoteric commands for an editor and then jump back and forth to shells all the time to compile and run. Any help or useful comments would be appreciated. TIA Rickdog

[evilcartman]

Anjuta is easy to use :)

[Bob54325]

But if you are developing for KDE, try KDevelop (better than Anjuta)

[jrcow97]

Are there any good IDE's for the console? Just wanted to know?

[Dru Lee Parsec]

IDE's for the console?

WTF?

Is that a serious question or was it a troll?

Kind of like asking for a GUI version of edlin

[jrcow97]

I'm serious. I'd like to use Anjuta, but I have pretty low stats on this one machine that I'd like to code on. I was thinking of not putting X on it at all.

[Dru Lee Parsec]

It's just that an IDE is a GUI that handles multiple files, compilation, debugging etc. and the console is . . . well . . . the console. It's text!

IDE = Integrated Development Environment. I just couldn't see how that relates to a console.

But then again I'm on a pretty short fuse right now (see my "Programmer's Rant" post) so maybe I'm not understanding things very well just at this moment.

[Strike]

Originally posted by Dru Lee Parsec:
<STRONG>It's just that an IDE is a GUI that handles multiple files, compilation, debugging etc. and the console is . . . well . . . the console. It's text!

IDE = Integrated Development Environment. I just couldn't see how that relates to a console.

But then again I'm on a pretty short fuse right now (see my "Programmer's Rant" post) so maybe I'm not understanding things very well just at this moment.</STRONG>
Um, IDE does not REQUIRE a(n X-based) GUI at all. Don't you remember the old DOS days? Those were IDEs. All those old Borland products were IDEs. vim is an IDE though in a more subtle way in that it isn't an all-in-one app itself, but it integrates really well with other development apps.

[kmj]

Originally posted by jrcow97:
<STRONG>Are there any good IDE's for the console? Just wanted to know?</STRONG>

vim. seriously; very seriously.

[jrcow97]

Besides vim, I also saw RHIDE (notice the IDE in Rhide) It was first created for dos, but now there's port for linux.

Hey sorry about ticking you off, but you were wrong about IDE being a GUI. I'd just like to keep all my files together, be able to switch from different source files, and be able to compile with a button instead of typing compile commands for each compile.

[Dru Lee Parsec]

Hey sorry about ticking you off

No, don't sweat it. No biggie at all. I'm not ticked off. I just couldn't seem to put the phrase "IDE" and "console" together. I seemed to have a difficult time with plain english yesterday. My wife and I argued for about 5 minutes before we realized we were both thinking exactly the same thing (but somehow it sounded like we were saying the exact opposite).

But then again, I was so flustered and pissed at work yesterday that when I went to the chess club to play in my wednesday night chess tournament I ended up resigning a won game. Am I burning any brain cells at all this week???

Strike, I remember the old Borland IDEs (Remember Turbo Pascal?) Wow, that goes way back.

[Strike]

Originally posted by Dru Lee Parsec:
<STRONG>But then again, I was so flustered and pissed at work yesterday that when I went to the chess club to play in my wednesday night chess tournament I ended up resigning a won game. Am I burning any brain cells at all this week???

Strike, I remember the old Borland IDEs (Remember Turbo Pascal?) Wow, that goes way back.</STRONG>

Yikes, sounds like a big brain fart day. S'okay, we all get them :) I'm actually inclined to think that since I started out using things like Borland Turbo C++ and the like that I am more accustomed to a text-based IDE having never really liked using the MS Visual Studio tools and never really finding a good graphical IDE in Linux that allows me the amount of control that I like with a simple interface. Anjuta isn't bad, but it fails the latter test (it's definitely useful though).