Integrated Development Environments

Question 1

What is an integrated development environment?

Answer 1

A piece of software that provides features to help a programmer to develop their program

Question 2

Common features of an integrated development environment

Answer 2

Translator
Auto-documentation
Graphic User interface builder

Question 3

IDE features: Translator

Answer 3

Allows source code to be understood by computer

Question 4

IDE features: Auto - Documentation

Answer 4

Maintains the program
Can extract certain features of a program e.g. names of variables, sub-programs, comments

Question 5

IDE features: GUI builder

Answer 5

helps programmer design a UI by building it graphically instead of using source code
Allows programmer to drag and drop different objects + customise them