Little strange request =)

[Melhisedek]

Hi folks !
I'm a n00b at programming and I'm learning =) Thing is that from now on I will have some time over at work ( 4-5 hours ) at night. So I thought I could do some programming
Thing is that never programmed under Win, always in Linux. So I would need some nice little free (if possible) :P IDE or something so I can compile and write my code.

I use vim and g++ in Linux so graphical IDE is not neccesary but would be nice =)

Yeah I can C++ only ( for now ).

That would be it.. Any help would be greatly appreciated !
Thanks in advance!

[KillerShots]

Are you saying you'd like to code on Windows? I think that's what you're implying but you didn't directly state that .

Anyways, if that's what you're asking, you can use g++/gcc even in Windows (check this page: http://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html). Editors you can use:

• Notepad (blegh)
• Wordpad (blegh)
• vi (I think you can do this). Check this site: http://www.vim.org
• emacs (I didn't really learn this one) http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html

Also, there's Free Borland C/C++ (I don't use this/haven't seen it personally) http://community.borland.com/article...,20633,00.html

There's also Free Dev-C++ Compiler (Never seen what this looks like personally) http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

Whether or not any of these have IDE's, I don't know. I believe the Borland and Dev-C++ compilers support compiling windows programs (i.e. creating windows via win32), but you can also use QT or something. I hope this helps!

[ector]

Dev-C++ is probably what you want, if you don't want to go the MS Visual Studio route.

[KillerShots]

Yeah, I was assuming you wanted something free

[Melhisedek]

Yeah that is true I would like to start programming in Win as well =) Only thing they use at work... I'm sorry that I wasn't clear before but my pause was nearing it's end and boss was around so... you know the drill =)

Anyway thanks for all the input! Will be all over info as soon as I get home. One Q though ? What is it that you use, and what would you recommend me as a newb ?

Thank you for your time!

[KillerShots]

I personally shelled out the dough and bought Microsoft Visual C++. You don't sound like much of a newb to coding, so you'd probably fit right in. The interface is very intuitive and easy to grasp. I think it was $400 USD for the non-educational version way back in 2000 when I bought my copy (I paid $100 USD for the educational version). The debugger in the IDE is really a good tool, I find I cannot live without it (Find those damn run-time errors!)... the only other software I've tried with a comparable debugger was in kdevelop for the X windows system, which was almost identical in functionality. I suppose you could try the "visual studios .NET" thing, I've heard good and bad stuff about it but it's the currently supported app (MSVC++ 6.0 is no longer being updated).