Creating your first project

After you have downloaded and installed Gideros, you can try to create your first Gideros project. Although Gideros is IDE independent, and lot of other IDE's such as LuaGlider, ZeroBrane, IntelliJ IDEA, and even Sublime can support Gideros, I would recommend that first-time users choose the provided Gideros Studio. That is what we will be using in this book.

Trying out Gideros Studio

You should note that I will be using the Windows version for screenshots and explanations, but Gideros Studio on other operating systems is quite similar, if not exactly the same. Therefore, it should not cause any confusion if you are using other versions of Gideros.

When you open Gideros Studio, you will see a lot of different sections ...

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