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Re:Teaching Someone To Code Is Partly A Hardware Problem by tehwalrus on Monday August 19, 2013 @04:34AM (#6236186)
for C/C++ on Windows, I recommend DevC++[1] (it also runs on linux too, but apt-get install [ide of choice] would also work there.)

It's bundled with the Mingw compiler, and basically works as you mention out of the box. I was delighted when I found it, a few years ago when my main systems were windows.

[1] http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

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Re:Teaching Someone To Code Is Partly A Hardware Problem by EliRivers on Monday August 19, 2013 @04:36PM (#6239635)
Dev-C++, or at least the version of it you get at that particular website, is a terrible choice. [1][2][3][4]

[1] http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/36896/

[2] http://clicktobegin.net/programming/why-you-shouldnt-use-dev...

[3] http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/cpp/threads/3707...

[4] http://blog.vucica.net/2011/01/reasons-against-advising-begi...

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Re:Teaching Someone To Code Is Partly A Hardware Problem by tehwalrus on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @10:47AM (#6244005)
Thank you, as I mentioned I haven't used it for a few years, and it seems it was old and broken even then! Apologies.
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Re:Teaching Someone To Code Is Partly A Hardware Problem by EliRivers on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @03:05PM (#6245855)
The Orwell fork n' continuation has a much better press.
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Re:Teaching Someone To Code Is Partly A Hardware Problem by ANTSANTS on Monday August 19, 2013 @05:14AM (#6236284)
Code::Blocks is probably a better choice for that. DevC++ is very outdated: the bundled version of GCC is 3.4.2, released in 2006.
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Re:Teaching Someone To Code Is Partly A Hardware Problem by gamegoblin on Monday August 19, 2013 @01:02PM (#6238258)
Code::Blocks is precisely what I get all newbies to download for exactly this reason. It's just download and run. It is as close to what I refer to as "just download C++". And it's a decent minimal IDE to boot.
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