Tools & Facilities in IDEs (Cambridge (CIE) O Level Computer Science)
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Tools & Facilities in IDEs
What is an IDE?
An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is software designed to make writing high-level languages more efficient
IDEs include tools and facilities to make the process of creating/maintaining code easier, such as:
Editor
Error diagnostics
Run-time environment
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Editor
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An editor gives users an environment to write, edit and maintain high-level code
Editors can provide:
Basic code formatting tools - changing the font, size of the font and making text bold etc
Prettyprint - using colour to make it easier to identify keywords, for example '
print
', 'input
' and 'if
' in PythonCode editing - auto-completion and auto-correction of code, bracket matching and syntax checks
Commenting code - allows sections of code to be commented out easily to stop it from being run or as comments on what the program is doing
Error-diagnostics
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Tools that help to identify, understand and fix errors in code, such as:
Identifying errors - highlight particular areas of code or provide direct error messages where the error may have appeared e.g. indentation errors etc
Debugger - provide a 'step through' command which provides step by step instructions and shows what is happening to the code line by line, useful for finding logic errors
Run-time environment
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Gives users the ability to run and see the corresponding output of a high-level language
Translator
Built in to compile or interpret code without the need for an extra piece of software
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