Scientific Computing with Free Linux Software

3. Code Development Tools

3.4. Integrated Development Environments

Integrated development environments (IDEs) can be very useful for building code and ideally come with all the above tools (i.e a compiler, a debugger and a version control tool). In addition to that IDEs also usually provide a makefile generator, documenting help, online help manuals, etc.

• Kdeveloper : A easy to use C/C++ IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Linux. It supports KDE/Qt, GNOME, plain C and C++ projects. This site has a lot of documentation ..... a highly browsable site for software developers. Specifically, KDevelop manages or provides:

  All development tools needed for C++ programming like Compiler, Linker, automake and autoconf; KAppWizard, which generates complete, ready-to-go sample applications; Class generator, for creating new classes and integrating them into the current project; File management for sources, headers, documentation etc. to be included in the project; The creation of User-Handbooks written with SGML and the automatic generation of HTML-output with the KDE look and feel; Automatic HTML-based API-documentation for your project's classes with cross-references to the used libraries; Internationalization support for your application, allowing translators to easily add their target language to a project; KDevelop also includes WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)-creation of user interfaces with a built-in dialog editor; Debugging your application by integrating KDbg; Editing of project-specific pixmaps with KIconEdit; The inclusion of any other program you need for development by adding it to the "Tools"-menu according to your individual needs.

• VDKbuilder: VDKbuilder is a tool that helps programmers in constructing GUI interfaces, editing, compiling, linking, and debugging within an integrated environment. Using VDKBuilder dramatically reduces developing time since all code related to GUI construction and signal processing is automatically generated, maintained and updated. It is distributed under the GNU Public License. Visit the site for downloading the software.

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Scientific Computing with Free Linux Software
Table of Contents
0. Home
1. Preamble
2. Introduction
3. Code Development Tools

3.1. Programming Languages

3.2. Debugging Tools

3.3. Version Control Tools

3.4. Integrated Development Environments
4. Mathematics Packages
5. Numerical Methods and Libraries
6. Graphics and Visualization
7. Programming systems for GNU/Linux
8. Word-Processing and Poster presenting tools on Linux
9. Free Database Management Systems for Linux
10. Linux in the laboratory