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A Beginner’s Guide to Integrated Development Environments
- PilotPirx 16y agoGreat list. I'm missing QtCreator.
- CountHackulus 16y agoI agree, I can't believe they missed out on QtCreator. With its Vim mode and excellent autocomplete support it's my current IDE of choice.
- jolie 16y agoSorry I missed it -- no one in my network (or on HN, when I asked) mentioned QtCreator to me.
- saundby 16y agoOthers missed but useful for beginners: BlueJ (Java), Arachnophilia (HTML/C/Java)
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- fiaz 16y agoExcellent post. I'm in the process of bringing some early developers into the fold and this list gives me a great way to encourage them to discover their coding preferences on their own.
- bl4k 16y agoWikipedia contains a fully documented and referenced table of IDE's with links to reviews and comparisons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_development_environments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_develo... This page on text editors is also excellent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors#Programming_features http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors#Prog... Wikipedia is weird in that way, there is little information on some topics but an overload of non-encyclopedic information on niche topics. For more depth there are articles that are also language specific, for eg. PHP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PHP_editors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PHP_editors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_Development_Tools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_Development_Tools and Javascript-based editors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Javascript-based_source_code_editors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Javascript-based_...
- jonhendry 16y agoThe Inform 7 IDE is pretty sweet, albeit specifically for the development of text adventures in Inform 7. http://inform7.com/learn/movies/ http://inform7.com/learn/movies/ Click 'build', and it compiles the game, produces a map of the locations in the game, indexes all the items in the game, and the rules and behaviors you've specified, etc.
- mrcharles 16y agoI wonder what their rationale is for listing visual studio as costing $549, when you can get the excellent express versions for free. They do have some limitations, but if all you are looking to do is get what works, then they are perfectly viable.