Well SUSE offers you 3 major development environments/programs + libraries,support and editors for perl, php, c, python and many others.
QT and Kdevelop :
An integrated development environment (IDE) that allows you to write
programs for the X Window System, the Qt library, or KDE. It includes a
documentation browser, a source code editor with syntax highlighting, a
GUI for the compiler, and much more.
Mono and Monodevelop- if you are interested in .net programming
MonoDevelop is intended to be a full-featured integrated development
environment (IDE) for mono and
Java and Eclipse:
The Eclipse Platform is designed for building integrated development
environments (IDEs) which can be extended by custom plugins. The base
distribution also contains a full-featured Java development
environment.
But what does the cds include is a mystery to me, according to Novell suse site those packages are only on the dvd version..
You maybe have to add a YAST repositories to get those packages with easy installation.
Here is a guide for that.
http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Add_YaST_Source