Integrated Development Environments

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  Programming with C++

  • Kyla McMullen, Elizabeth Matthews, June Jamrich Parsons, , Kyla McMullen, Kyla McMullen, Elizabeth Matthews, June Jamrich Parsons(Authors)
  • 2021(Publication Date)
  • Cengage Learning EMEA

    (Publisher)

  Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. PROGRAMMING WITH C++ 32 2.5 IDES AND SDKS Integrated Development Environments (2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4) Some experienced programmers like to create a customized development environment containing their favorite editing, compiling, and debugging tools. For your initial foray into programming, it is easier to use an integrated development environment (IDE) that includes all of the tools you need to code, compile, link, and debug your work. Many IDEs support some level of visual programming so that you can define program elements using menus while dragging and dropping variables into program statements. Figure 2-22 highlights some of the key features of an IDE. Popular IDEs include Visual Studio, Xcode, Eclipse, Netbeans, and PyCharm. To use these IDEs, you have to download and install them on a computer. If you prefer to work with an online IDE (or web IDE) that requires no installation, check out services such as repl.it, codeanywhere, Ideone, and AWS Cloud9. Software Development Kits (2.5.5, 2.5.6, 2.5.7) Here’s an idea: What about creating a program for iPhones that displays “Hola!” anytime the phone is picked up? Your program will have to access the phone’s accelerometer to sense when the phone is lifted. To get this project off the ground, you need the iOS SDK. A software development kit (SDK) is a set of tools for developing platform-specific software. SDKs include preprogrammed code libraries, code samples, documentation, and other utilities. Often these tools are wrapped in an integrated development environment that provides coding, compiling, and debugging tools.

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  Language Architectures And Programming Environments

  • F Baiardi, Tadao Ichikawa, L Lapriore(Authors)
  • 1992(Publication Date)
  • World Scientific

    (Publisher)

  Since programming involves constant repetition of this edit-execute-debug cycle, the overhead of switching tools should be reduced or eliminated. Integrated Environment The problem can be solved with we 11-integrated tools. In an integrated environment, a programmer need not apply tools manually and can execute and debug a program during an editing session even if the program is incomplete. These facilities are made possible by the introduction of an incremental semantic check and incremental code generation. Examples of integrated programming environments are LPE (Incremental F^gramming Environment) [6], CPS (Cornell Program Synthesizer) [7], MENTOR (8, 9], Magpie [13], and Gandalf [10]. (i) Integrated facilities The purpose of integrated programming environments is to provide the following facilities; 1. syntax checks; This checks whether a program satisfies programming language syntax. 2. static semantic checks: This checks whether a program is semantically correct in the static aspect. 3. dynamic semantic checks (run-time checks): This checks whether a program is correct in the dynamic aspect An example of this kind of check is the index range of array. 4. code generation; In order to execute a program interactively, object codes are generated. 5. incremental execution: This supports immediate execution of a program fragment currendy being edited. 6. debugging facilities: This supports debugging of a program. Examples are step-wise execution, breakpoint setting for a statement or a variable, getting or setting a value of a variable. 1 and 2 are related to the static aspects of a program. Whereas, 3 to 6 are related to the program execution. (ii) User interfaces Most of integrated environments use structure editors as user interface. These structure editors can be classified into the following two types in terms of program input methods. The first type parses a program which is input as character strings and detects syntax errors.

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  Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

  Move beyond basic programming and construct reliable and efficient software with complex code

  • Brian Allbee(Author)
  • 2018(Publication Date)
  • Packt Publishing

    (Publisher)

  , obviously, so take these with an appropriately sized grain of salt. Your personal views on any or all of these, or your needs for any or all of them, may be substantially different.

  Many IDEs have various  bells and whistles  functionality that helps, perhaps substantially, with the processes of writing or managing code, but isn't something that's really critical . Examples of these include the following:

  • The ability to navigate to where a code entity is defined from someplace where it's being used
  • Code completion and autosuggestion, which allows the developer to quickly and easily select from a list of entities based on the first few characters of an entity name that they've started typing
  • Code coloration and presentation, which provides an easy-to-understand visual indication of what a given block of code is –  comments, class, function and variable names, that sort of thing

  These will also be rated on the same scale, but since they aren't critical functionality, they are presented merely as additional information items.

  All of the following IDEs are available across all the major operating systems – Windows, Macintosh, and Linux (and probably most UNIX systems, for that matter) –  so that, an important criteria for evaluating the IDE part of a development toolkit is moot across the three discussed.

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  IDLE

  IDLE is a simple IDE, written in Python and using the Tkinter GUI, which means that it should run on pretty much anything that Python can run on. It is often, but not always, part of a default Python installation but even when it's not included by default, it's easily installed and doesn't require much of anything in the way of external dependencies or other languages runtime environments.

  • Large-project support :
    Poor
  • Refactoring support : Poor
  • Language exploration : Good
  • Code execution : Good
  • Bells and whistles : Fair

  Out of the box, IDLE doesn't provide any project management tools, though there may be plugins that provide some of this capability. Even so, unless there are also plugins available that allow for more than one file to be open at a time without requiring each to be in a separate window, working with code across multiple files will eventually be tedious, at best, and perhaps impractical to the point of being effectively impossible.

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