2 Introduction to the Integrated Development Environment

So far, we’ve used individual tools such as GCC, make, and a text editor to build our program. This has allowed you to see what each tool does and learn about the details of software development. Now you’ll learn about using an integrated development environment (IDE). The IDE is a program designed to take all those tools (and some others) and hide them behind one integrated interface.

The main advantage of this approach is that you can use one GUI-based tool to do everything. The major disadvantage is that it works well only if you behave the way the IDE expects you to behave. Also, ...

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