Editors and IDEs
IDEs
The labs have visual studio installed with C++ and C# support. These are the recommended IDEs for the course. You will also find pycharm and related tooling installed.
Other Options
Jetbrains provides cross-platform IDEs you might find helpful during your time here. Many of the popular ones are available under a community/open-source licence, but you can also find the commercial versions are available under a (free) Educational Licence.
In particular, you may find the following software helpful:
- Jetbrains Rider - C#, Unity
- Jetbrains CLion - C, C++
CLion
- cpp
PyCharm
- python
PyCharm is the offering from JetBrains for Python development. It comes in two editions: Community Edition is FOSS Professional Edition is Non-Free, but you can use a student licence Both versions are suitable for your time at university, however, if you are developing commerically or wish to use Free Software editors, the community edition is recommended. You can compare the differences between the versions on the Jetbrains Website.
Rider
- C#
Rider is an editor in the Jetbrains suite. You can get a student licence while you are at the University, at time of writing there is no community edition of this product. Rider is not available in our computing labs, an alternative, Visual Studio is available. However, if you need a cross-platform (Linux compatable) editor then Rider is a good choice for home use.
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