Development software

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:04 PM, rusi <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris talked of a good make tool. Yes this is necessary for more 'in-
> the-large' programming.
> But for a beginner its very important to have tight development cycle
> -- viz.
> a. Write a function
> b. Check the function
> c. Change the definition
> d. Check that
> etc
> with a minimum of keystrokes

a. Write a code file
b. Press F7 and see the output in the other window.
c, d. Iterate.

Most IDEs will give you some such facility. F7 happens to be SciTE's
keystroke, others may use Ctrl-F9 or F5 or C-x M-x butterfly, but it's
almost certainly going to be there.

Chris Angelico