Setting up the IDE for programming in C

In this part you will learn: 1. IDE 2. Compiler 3. Setting up the DEV C++ environment Today we are going to start a 15day series of learning C language. In these tutorials I will teach you from the most basic to some advance stuff. First and the most basic step to start coding is to setup and IDE ( Integrated Development Environment ) sounds a little bit complicated but it really isn’t. Now let’s cover some very basic questions that may arise in your mind. What is an IDE? IDE stands for integrated development environment, You can say it is simply a sheet of paper on which you write your code. It has all other some other stuff integrated with it, which includes a compiler to compile your code and show you an output, code formatter to color your written code for easier reading and many other stuff let’s not go into that now. What is a Compiler? What you write in your code is actually not understandable by a machine. Machine only understands machine language so a compiler is a program which automatically understands your code and converts it to machine language. Which IDE should you use? For beginners there is a very simple and good IDE easily available on the internet with the name DEV C++. You might be thinking that it’s written C++ relax it can also be used for C, as C and C++ are quite similar. Setting up the DEV C++ IDE: •First of all go to this link http://download.cnet.com/Orwell-Dev-C/3000-2069_4-12686.html and download DEV C++ •Then simply follow the instructions and install. •After installing it will simply as for language and some other stuff just see the picture below. Pic1 Select your desired Language Pic2 Select your desired font Pic3 Cache the headers Pic4 http://www.sourcecodester.com/sites/default/files/download/moazkh60/pic4.png Click ok •Go to File > New > Source File. •Now everything is set up and we are ready for coding. Output: