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Student needs C compiler, Which C?
RedSonja
post 4 Sep, 2008 - 01:05 AM
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My daughter is starting to study Computer Science soon. I got her a pretty little laptop. Now, they are going to start on C right away - she has no experience whatsoever yet (can't think why she wants to study this at all).

I downloaded the GNU gcc but it is an extreme pain to install it on a PC, and this little sweetie has Vista just to make it interesting.

So someone advise me please which compiler to download for her. Maybe I should put Linux on the PC at home and get an ordinary compiler, but these days it is all Windows so she ought to get used to it.

I thought of trying Linux on the laptop, but maybe I should leave it to the college to teach her all that and let her do it herself. The man in the laptop shop would have put XP on it, but I would have had to buy a licence, and my credit card was still screaming from the laptop.


If this is in the wrong section, please someone push it into the right place...
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post 4 Sep, 2008 - 01:17 AM
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You are on your own as far as Vista goes, but you can find a nice list of free Compilers & IDE's here.

If she is just getting into CS, I would say hold off on the Linux. It might be a bit much trying to learn how to work on a PC, while trying to focus on College.
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go on google, and search this "dev cpp". That is a good compiler in my opinion, and it works on vista too. And it has support for "c and c++".

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post 4 Sep, 2008 - 03:25 AM
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Dev-C++ is really sort of an orphaned project. I think at this point I'd be suggesting the free MS Express Edition(s) or Code::Blocks.
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Go for Code::Blocks with the MinGW compiler.

http://www.codeblocks.org

She can ask questions here if she gets stuck happy.gif

Wish her luck from me!
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post 4 Sep, 2008 - 05:16 AM
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Dev-C++ is really sort of an orphaned project. I think at this point I'd be suggesting the free MS Express Edition(s) or Code::Blocks.


Code Blocks is really good

If she is going into cs then they will tell her which compiler they want. For example I was a computer engineering major and when i took a programming class with the engineering departement we used visual studio"Provided by the school for free download" When I took a programming class with the cs department we used what ever compiler we wanted but all examples were done useing vi and gcc.
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Go for Code::Blocks with the MinGW compiler.

http://www.codeblocks.org

She can ask questions here if she gets stuck happy.gif

Wish her luck from me!

I can second this recommendation. All the goodness of GCC with a very nice IDE wrapped around it.
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