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Now before you are able to run a program, the codes have to be compiled into a program. Without a compiler, or an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), your codes would be just text files that just sit on your computer doing nothing.

These are just a few of several free IDEs that are available as of now:

1. Microsoft Visual Studio Express for Desktop

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads

2. Code Blocks

http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/5

3. NetBeans

https://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html

4. Eclispe CDT

http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/downloads.php

I would recommend Microsoft Visual Studio Express really, as it has intellisense (a software feature that shows you code snippets, definitions and available functions on the fly), a robust debugger, and it is being used widely in the industry. Microsoft offers the Visual Studio Express, which is a free version, so I don’t see why we shouldn’t use it, and it is a plus to have experience in such an IDE.

So go ahead and download Visual Studio Express if you will, and lets get started!