2.5.2 The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Question 1

What does IDE allow?

Answer 1

Programmers to design, develop and test their program ideas

Question 1

What are the common functionality?

Answer 1

Editors
Error diagnostics
Run-time environment
Translators

Question 2

What is the editor?

Answer 2

Text editor designed for writing source code
Tools to assist with formatting and syntax and the colour coding of statements help the programmer to stop errors

Question 3

What is error diagnostics (debugging tools)?

Answer 3

Help to identify errors in particular lines of code

Question 4

What is run-time environment?

Answer 4

allows programs to be run virtually within the IDE software, testing each line and allowing the programmer to spot and resolve errors

Question 5

What is the translators?

Answer 5

Will compile or interpret the final code required