IDEs

Question 1

What does IDE stand for?

Answer 1

Integrated Development Environment

Question 2

What is an IDE?

Answer 2

Software used to enter and edit source code. It will also compile programs to machine code and have debugging features

Question 3

What are the facilities of an IDE that would be useful to programmers?

Answer 3

Error diagnostics (debugging and error detection)

Runtime environment

Translators

Code editors

Question 4

What is a runtime environment?

Answer 4

Enables a program to be run. It checks for runtime errors and other testing can be carried out.

Question 5

What is prettyprint?

Answer 5

Alters indentation and formatting to make code easier to read

Question 6

What are error diagnostics?

Answer 6

A list of errors along with the line number in which they were detected

Question 7

What are breakpoints?

Answer 7

Lines of code in the program that enables the programmer to pause the program at certain points to check the values of variables