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[Gattsu25]

I know about Dev-C++ (and C++ for Eclipse) but are there any better IDEs out there that are also free?

What do you guys use?

 

[Phoenix]

Eclipse. Download the C++ language plugin.

Better than that and free - nope. Not really.

 

[thorns]

It's not free but Visual Studio with VisualAssist X is the best IDE for c++ out there..

Spoiler

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Otherwise use eclipse, but beware that it requires a lot of memory.. If you have low memory (<= 256) VS6.0 is the best..

 

[Ghost]

Wow, i was just about to make this thread...

Anyway while we are here, Im trying to teach myself C++ over the summer, what books have people found useful? Im completely new to C++ but i do have quite a bit of experience with Java, if that makes a difference.

 

[Gattsu25]

It makes a huge difference, actually

I haven't found any good books myself, but I have some introductory books that I'm none too thrilled about (they're all school books from a retarded college I'm glad to have dropped out of...small, poorly written, bad teaching aids, and all of them expensive as FUCK)

currently looking at books from Course Technologies

http://www.course.com/catalog/title...ategory=CS1 Introduction to Programming - C++
http://www.course.com/catalog/title...Science&subcategory=CS2 Data Structures - C++
http://www.course.com/catalog/produ...ory=Programming Techniques&isbn=1-59200-205-6

No clue on how good they are though

 

[Slo]

Eclipse has a C++ plugin? Sveeeeet.

 

[Shompola]

There was this awesome C++ book that we used for reference when we did not know the syntax for a particular thing like standard template stuff. It was easy to read and understand. Cant remember the name of it though. But I will let you know.

 

[CrunchyB]

That's cute, the GoogleAd below (for me) is an Eclipse ad

 

[Phoenix]

Actually I wasn't even thinking because I am assuming that you are on WIndows (and you probably are), but if you're on a Mac or have one around - XCode is DEFINITELY commercial quality, has object modellers, GUI builders, enterprise application functionality, code assist (something Visual Studio users had to wait for for a while), distributed builds, etc. Oh, and it doesn't cost you anything

 

[Dsal]

I was very suprised by the quality of the Eclipse IDE, although I don't personally use it for C++. Dev C++ is okay too, especially for quick/smaller scope projects.

 

[Talas]

TurboC for life!

 

[fart]

i'm not a fan of eclipse, but vc++ did grow on me... if xcode is really all that and a bag of chips i've really gotta get me a mac (to cross compile on hurr hurr hurr)

to start with you should probably use a simple editor. ultraedit is my favorite for windows, bbedit for mac, or your favorite cult-like editor for your favorite cult-like unix distro.

 

[Phoenix]

or your favorite cult-like editor for your favorite cult-like unix distro.

Emacs for life yo!


But yeah, XCode was surprisingly excellent in the 2.0 release. Before then I couldn't stand it and was cooking up all sorts of ant scripts to do my builds without having to screw with it.