Favorite Programming IDE?

[Sandman]

I dunno about you guys, but my CS1 teacher started a revolution for me when he introduced Borland's C++ Builder 6 as his preferred IDE. After trying MSVC, and Borland Builder, I have decided that Borland Builder kicks the crap out of MSVC as far as ease of use and overall functionality! Especially for programming for the Windows environment! I LOVE BCB AND C++!!!

What's your preferred programming language/IDE?

 

[henrym]

VC++.NET for me, no real reasons per se, it just does everything I need it to do.

 

[Sandman]

Any nifty features? Borland Builder lets me drag and drop windows components onto a form and edit them with a smart object editor. Very nifty. I am not sure how to use MSVC very well, but it didn't seem like there was anything visual about it, imo. With borland, I can just double-click on a button that I want to write an onClick function for, and borland will automatically create the function prototype and all that lame extra-typing stuff. Borland is amazing, to me.

 

[Jmechy]

if this is for a compsci class though, aren't you missing out on some vital learning?

i dunno, my compsci class has us use notepad, and its fine for the learners...

 

[IronHand]

MSVC 6.0 + Visual Assist 6.0.

About Borland C++ Builder... Well, it is RAD application developement tool and nothing more. It has some disadvantages. All this dialogs built with builder are slow. They look good, you make them easily, but you're not sure if they work properly. And if they don't - you can do nothing about it. You have no source code for them. I'm not telling you, that there are dozens of bugs in it, oh no. But you do not have full control over app creation, which I prefer. That's why I'm using wxWindows or FOX Toolkit w/ MSVC for RAD applications. And they have some advantage over BCB: source code available and portability (99% of your code runs well on MacOS and Linux as well).

 

[Sandman]

Well, as far as learning... compsci courses don't normally include windows programming. It's extra-stuff. I've learned how to write a windows app minus the extras, as well. I think that I have a great teacher. He's been preparing us for a lot of stuff that other CS students will have to dive into. I'm taking a Unix class next semester(I hope) so I'll be able to use that if I have to. Besides, the extras in Borland Builder are quite functional and have never screwed up anything for me. It's true that I don't have access to the source code for those components because they come in packages... but hey, that's what OOP is all about! I don't care how it works, I just know it works. And it does work : )

 

[Brian Damage]

JGrasp.

Dunno why.

That or EditPlus 2.

 

[Sandman]

Is JGrasp for Java?

 

[Brian Damage]

Yes, but it seems to work for C++ too. I think you just point it to the compiler, or something like that. It has templates for C++ files, so I'd assume it can compile them.

I think it's called JGrasp because it's actually written in Java.

 

[Echelon]

#d, sharp-develop. a free c# IDE, i'm not going to spend $130 for MSVS .NET

 

[Sandman]

I spent $120 for BCB6 Professional : )
Got it from school bookstore at mega-educational-discount rate. The best thing about it is that it maintains full functionality! I have a $1k piece of software on my computer that I didn't steal! I also have MSVC++ 6 Enterprise edition... but that one I did steal. I don't use it, though... it's not very user-friendly as far as doing windows-apps.

 

[khaki]

C++: MSVC6
Java: JCreator (Comp Sci)