Creating Files Source Code Files

• You have already been using a text editor to create your programs.
• I would like to look at some choices.
  • There are many of them
• ASCII text editors do not have a graphical interface.
  • vi, joe, nano...
  • Are somewhat harder to learn, but are very portable.
  • Generally just use this is a terminal emulator (puTTY)
• GUI text editors
  • Notepad++, and many others.
  • These are nice as they provide additional guidance when editing files.
  • Buttons to save and other bits.
  • But need to run on the "local" machine mostly.
• IDE : integrated development environment
  • eclipse, code::blocks
  • too many to list.
  • These are really nice.
  • Include editor, compiler, debugger and others.
  • Unfortunately they run on the "local" machine as well.
• A common method of working I have seen is
  • Edit the file locally.
  • Use FileZille to transfer it to cslab103
  • Then compile, and repeat.
• The problem with this is
  • It is not an efficient workflow.
  • I have seen people suffer from errors as they forget to transfer the file.
• WinSCP demo.