Good choices! People can make entire careers just writing make files :-)<br><br><a href="http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html">http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html</a><br>and the best intro to vim is in vim itself. Pop up a shell and just type vimtutor<br>
<br>There are a gazillion vim plugins (adds to the .vimrc file or literal 'load on demand' tools) that can make things better or just clutter the screen. One of the most useful ones I use is screen splitting so I can have two files visible at once.<br>
<a href="http://vim.runpaint.org/navigation/splitting-screen/">http://vim.runpaint.org/navigation/splitting-screen/</a><br><br>FLTK is an easy and light gui tool kit. wx is bigger and cross platform. QT is bigger still and also cross platform.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Ron Frazier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com">atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hi Rich,<br>
<br>
Even though we've discussed some of this on the phone, I thought I'd
share it with the group.<br>
<br>
I've been threatening to relearn programming for 15 years, and I'm
hoping to actually carry out the threat. 15 years ago, I programmed in
Clipper, a C like database language. I posted a thread a few months
back on this list talking about developing in C#. However, the people
here convinced me that C++ would be better. I now hope to plow through
the book "Programming Principles and Practice Using C++" by Bjarne
Stroustrup (the inventor of C++). I'm hoping to do cross platform
development. I'm going to use Visual C++ Express on Windows, which is
free. On Linux, I've hit on the GCC compiler, as suggested by others.
I don't know how to use the make system, at this point, but compiling
small programs with a few source files seems to be very simple. I
believe you can go through this entire book without an IDE. I know
that the gedit editor in Ubuntu does syntax highlighting and auto
indention for C / C++ files. I'll probably start out using that. I
may also try VIM as I've had just enough experience with VI in the past
to be dangerous. (I basically know the insert, delete line, and write
file commands.) Obviously, I would have to learn more about VIM for
serious programming, but you can do a lot with just those commands,
although not very efficiently. By the way, this book also talks about
a cross platform minimal graphics toolkit called FLTK (faster than
light toolkit, I think) which can be used to put basic windows and
buttons on the screen, etc. When I graduate to an IDE, I'll probably
try NetBeans or Eclipse. I believe Eclipse can run on Windows too.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<div class="im"><br>
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On 4/20/2011 11:47 PM, Richard Faulkner wrote:
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Can anyone point me to a preferred C compiler or developer environment
for Fedora 12-14? Time to play code monkey and don't want to do it on
a Window$ box (for which I've done C++ in the past upon).<br>
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Thanks! RinL<br>
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