Hi!

I'm currently using Ubuntu 7.10 and I have decided to start programming in C/C++.

Well the problem I have is that I don't know what IDE to install.
Where can I find it etc.

Well I heard about Eclipse. Does it use the Gnu Compilers?

I would like an IDE that's delivered with a compiler, debugger etc.
Something like Visual Studio for Windows.

Thanks!

Hello,

Eclipse + CDT will indeed do the trick. Eclipse should detect and use gcc, if you have it installed. There is also Code::Blocks, which visually looks more like VC++. It will also use your gcc and gdb. I personally prefer Code::Blocks, but it's a matter of taste.

Eclipse is slower than C::B, but is also way more stable. C::B is still under heavy development.

I think most people will suggest you use Anjuta. I have little experience with it, so I'll let others comment on it.

Hello,
You could also try Netbeans; the latest version supports C/C++ very well. You can read about it at ...
http://www.netbeans.org/features/cpp/index.html
Alex

Try out Netbeans, Eclipse is fine too. They are slightly slow as they run on java but they are very good.

I think the latest kdevelop is a nice c/c++ IDE tool. And visual slick is also a option if you want something similar to visual studio.

But in linux, most of the programmer prefer using vi, emacs ...

Thanks a lot for all the helpful answers.

I was wondering how debug with the Gnu tools work.
If I use Emacs and Gcc, how do I do to debug the code?

In Visual Studio you just do a Debug build and set the breakpoint where you want it. Is it similar with GNU tools and Emacs?

What about Tracing the code and doing a Watch on a variable, pointer?

Thanks

The GNU Debugger: gdb can do it. But it's command line based and it is very very hard to master if you have already get used to Visual Stuidio. Try out Eclipse or Netbeans.

Just starting out, why don't you learn the old fashioned way first without using a GUI. Use the command line tools: vi, gcc, gdb, make, etc. Do some command line stuff before graduating to point-n-click.

Let me refrase. I don't mean just started programming. Well it's kind of the truth. Started programming using Linux. But I have been programming quite a lot under Windows.

That's why I need help finding good tools to do the same but using Ubuntu Linux and Gnome.

With your experience you may not have any problem using gdb, gcc, text-editor combo to form an IDE.
But if you want something big, and familiar to window then try Netbeans and Eclipse.

I'd recommend code::blocks

I think your real place to start is here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/

Its a book on programming Unix style.
As an ex-windows myself I was initially puzzled by the strange concept of modularity I kept on meeting.
The thing is that the writing of a program is divided up between its component task and then each of these has a program that does that and does that well.

If you want something a bit speadier to work with than straight gcc though, you can automate that with another command line program called make.

e.g.

This will compile 'one.cpp' 'two.cpp' and 'three.cpp' into 'program'

NOTE: g++ is gcc running in C++ mode (gcc actually automates more programs, for modularities sake)