What software for development should I use?

[alexandros81]

Hi!
I have to do a University exercise that is I have to develop code in C. The code will have to handle processes, client server processes, socket descriptors & sockets, and creating new processes using fork().

What development environment do you suggest? I would prefer something that has step by step debugging, variables watch window etc.

Thanks

Alex

[Lars Noodén]

In the beginning I would recommend staying with geany (http://www.geany.org/), kate (http://kate-editor.org/about-kate/), or emacs. They might be much simpler than you are asking for, but they do the job.

Later, after you're familiar with the language, and are working on large projects you can look at kdevelop, netbeans or eclipse.

[alexandros81]

I've been using XEmacs in the past. I am a bit familiar with C language.
I've used NetBeans for java development. Should I start using Netbeans for C ?
Where do I find and install kate , geany , emacs , netbeans, kdevelop? I would like to have go with all of these.

ta

[The Cog]

Moved to Programming Talk.

You'll probably get lots of answers here, each recommending a different IDE.

[Bachstelze]

A terminal and vim.

EDIT: and gdb.

[alexandros81]

What is vim? Can you give me a link?

[Lars Noodén]

What is vim? Can you give me a link?

He's just pulling your leg. :) The vim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_%28text_editor%29) vs emacs editor war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war) is a classic.

[Bachstelze]

There should be a Recurring Discussions subforum in PT. :D

[ofnuts]

I've been using XEmacs in the past. I am a bit familiar with C language.
I've used NetBeans for java development. Should I start using Netbeans for C ?
Where do I find and install kate , geany , emacs , netbeans, kdevelop? I would like to have go with all of these.

takate and kdevelop are in your usual repository. They integrate with the KDE desktop (which is a bit more oriented towards software development than Gnome or <smirk>Unity</smirk>

[nvteighen]

There should be a Recurring Discussions subforum in PT. :D

Which should include itself as a subforum, recursively.

[11jmb]

Which should include itself as a subforum, recursively.

:D lol

I think it may be to your benefit to use a text editor to edit your source/make files and the command line to compile and run. IDEs can be great if you are using a lot of developer's tools such as SVN, unit testing, autotools, etc, but if you are working on a smaller project as an individual, a simple text editor that does syntax highlighting will be simple and straightforward.

just my two cents

[alexandros81]

I have downloaded and installed NetBeans 7.0.1
I have downloaded and installed both jdk and jre. Because I want to use NetBeans to write code in C I have to configure the NetBeans IDE for C/C++/Fortran. I am using this page: http://netbeans.org/community/releases/70/cpp-setup-instructions.html#compilers_linux

I have downloaded Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 and in the section 'To download and install the Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 compilers:' I canot understand step 6: Edit your PATH to add the path to the Oracle Solaris Studio software before starting the NetBeans IDE
How do I do step 6?

Oh and last but not least I try to run NetBeans by issuing the command
./netbeans in the Terminal and nothing happens. I also double click the netbeans icon on the desktop and still no luck

Ta

[JDShu]

Whether you choose vim or emacs, I recommend using cscope with it.

[alexandros81]

Where do I find Emacs and cscope and how do i install them?

[Lars Noodén]

Where do I find Emacs and cscope and how do i install them?

Both are in Ubuntu's software repositories. You can install them from the Software Center or from Synaptic, whichever you are using.

[phlancelot]

I would recommend using Eclipse, I've used this in the past with Ubuntu to do Java, C++ and Android programming.

Its a very full featured editor and is cross platform and used at a lot of academic institutions.

I think your best bet for install would be go to eclipses site and follow the guide from there as the versions in the Ubuntu repos tend to be out of date

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

I think you'd be best getting the package for C++ or the classic one which I think may include c++ tools? or at least you should be able to add on stuff once its installed