Software engineering

• Software development environment

  Known as Integrated Development Environments (IDE), provide programmers with various tools that are needed to create computer programs.
• Libraries


  Collection of commonly used private functions and subprograms. Examples of private functions include standard mathematical operations such as square root and random number generators.

  e.g. of subprograms - standard input/output routines
• What are the advantages to using standard libraries?

  • Programs will contain less code and will therefore be easier to maintain.
  • Time is saved as the programmer can simply use the private functions and programs stored in a library