Hey, I was wondering if anyone could please give me a good IDE for someone who just came from programming in windows. Any way that the header files can be the same so when I run some of my programs in Linux so I don't have to edit them when I get to a windows computer. The reason for this is that at my high shcool we use Windows XP and I need to program at home and can't install Visual studio via WINE. Any help please .

Hopefully your school teaches programming and not IDEs, that way you can switch over the "proper" way and use a text editor and gcc in a terminal. Are you writing GUI programs, or just command-line?
ta0kira

To be honest I got the term IDE from the sticky in this forum. I figured that IDEs were just like the visual programming lay out. But were learning programming like classes, pointers(Hard concept for me to grasp), arrays, and what not. Were just writing console programs wring now. Next year we get into GUI programs.

You might want to something like vim (a good vi superset). For many this is all the IDE you ever need. If, however, this does not appeal to you, you can try the graphical ones listed in—you guessed it—the sticky.
Standard C++ programs are cross platform (thus the “standard”), so you won’t have any problems with missing headers and such. GUI programs, however, are usually platform-specific (e.g., win32), although there are cross-platform ones as well (e.g., qt4), in addition to things like winelib which allow you compile win32 code on *nix machines.

And what IDE did you use in Windows? (I suppose it was Visual Studio)
Anyway, I recommend to work without IDE. You can pick a good text editor (Emacs, vim, Kate, or something else). If you can't live without IDE - take a look at Eclipse, KDevelop, Anjuta.

This will be possible only if something of the following apply:
1) you are use only standart C++ library functions.
2) you don't use any platform-dependant API (CreateFile() on Windows, fork() on Linux)

or if
3) you are using cross-platform framework, like Qt, wxWidgets, or something like that.

Even in those cases there might be trouble in some situations - not-fully-standart functions can be named differently or they can have different number parameters in Windows and Linux (example: vswprintf. 4 parameters on linux, 3 on Windows, Windows version version is missing target buffer length.).