I am not sure if this is even possible but I have watched a few videos with programming examples where it seems like the program is being written in some kind of command prompt rather than a nice graphical IDE. Im just curious as to what might be going on in these videos. Is it possible to write a program without an IDE?
heres two examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSY9cWjO8o( @ 6 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTZoB2Vjuk (@ 5 min)
Could anyone explain how this is done?
Thank you all for the great feedback!
Best Answer
All you need to write a program is a text editor and a compiler (or an interpreter if you're writing in a non-compiled language). Code is usually just plain text. Really, you could write any program imaginable using Windows Notepad and a command-line C compiler.
A lot of programmers don't even use IDEs. I personally used Gedit (a basic Linux text editor with syntax highlighting) for the longest time before I finally switched to Eclipse.
In fact, I still use Gedit when I want to write a simple program. Sometimes I'll even just use nano if I want to whip up a quick script, because I'm too impatient to wait for an IDE to load.