About to start C++ programming?

I second the above poster's suggestion of NotePad++ as an editor. Microsoft's Visual Studio Express is a free compiler; you could also try the gcc compiler (Just google gcc compiler for the latest version).

If you are Windows there are things to be said for Visual C++. For GCC you have a couple of choices.

Cygwin and MingW are the Windows ports. If you are on Mac BSD Unix or GNU Linux then you get GCC with your operating system. Or you register as a developer with Apple. For an IDE you can use Dev-C++ or visual mingw or or Eclipse or Code::Blocks.

I actually prefer the command line --but I use Linux. If I want to debug something I just feed gcc the -g switch and I can step through it with gdb. If I want to compile and manage multiple files: I use make and makefiles. You can do it with Visual C++ but I baled off Windows years ago.

In sources I have links to Eclipse and to some pages which discuss and link to everything else. I recommend visiting them.

If you want to start c programming i suggest that you must start turbo c version 2.01 you can do a program basics there before you go to c++. This c program i used when i was a beginner.

complier

http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/

editor

use notepad++ for a simple editor

This is a good C++ compiler:

http://bloodshed-dev-c.en.softonic.com/

You can download it free online. I've used it for all my C++ work.

try codeblocks, i love this ide, and it does c++ :)

also visual studio is good too

jgrasp also does c++

you can use eclipse too.