T8 - IDEs

Question 1

IDEs stands for

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Integrated Development Environments

Question 2

IDE fucntion

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They have a number of tools and features that help programmers when they are programming

Question 3

IDE eg

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Visual Studio (for C#, VB and other languages),
Eclipse (for Java and many more)
IDLE (for Python)

Question 4

Line numbers:

Answer 4

allow a programmer to clearly see each new line of code

Question 5

line numbers folded means

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Can be folded = parts of the program that the programmer doesn’t need to see

Question 5

Line numbers: When errors are found

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the line number that they occur on will also be stated

Question 6

Syntax highlighting

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• is where the colour of the text changes to show different parts of the program

Question 7

Error diagnostics:

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help a programmer to find where they have made a mistake

Question 8

how are errors identified

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-with their line number
-The code may be underlined or highlighted to show the error

Question 9

Debugging code: break points

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set by the programmer so that the IDE stops the program mid-way through running

Question 10

break points, stepping through, watching variables pros

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• pauses code
  The programmer can the step through code line by line
  They can watch variables as they change
  -easier to identify errors

Question 11

The run-time environment:

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allows a programmer to test their program while it is running

Question 12

If the program crashes = the run-time environment

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can see what happened and give useful information to the programmer

Question 13

The run-time environment + libraries that come with the programming language

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will be available to the programmer to use

Question 14

Editors –

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Use to write and edit programming code

Question 15

Line numbers

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– Give a number to each line of code, this is useful when the IDE refers to lines of code

Question 16

Syntax highlighting –

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Different colours for code that has different meanings, such as keywords, strings or variables

Question 17

Breakpoints, stepping and watching variables –

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-can pause code when running
- then run each line of code separately
-whilst watching the values stored in variables as they change

Question 18

Error diagnostics –

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Comments from the IDE that help in finding the cause of syntax errors

Question 19

Run-time environment –

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The facility of the IDE that allows programs to be run