The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

• What is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)?

  A piece of software to help a programmer develop programs
• Editor

  • The editor enables programmers to write and edit their code
  • Most code editors have line numbering and automatic code colouring for things like strings, functions, variables and comments
  • Good code editors will also have other automatic features like auto-correct, auto-indentation and auto-complete
• Error diagnostics

  • Help to find and fix errors in a program- they'll tell you the location of the error and often suggest ways to fix it
• Run-time environment

  • Allows the code to be run quickly within the IDE- this is done using a start and run button
  • Can also be used to help identify logic errors in the program as the programmer can see which part of the code is running when the error occurred
• Translator

  The IDE will use either a compiler or interpreter to translate high-level languages into machine code so that it can be run