Lesson 6

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Candidates should be able to:

describe common tools and facilities available in an integrated development environment (IDE): editors, error diagnostics, run-time environment, translators, auto-documentation.

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Integrated Development Environment

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Source code editor

Project Navigator

Main menu with tools to manage the project and to run the project in the run time environment

Errors found while compiling the project.

Integrated Development Environment

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Autocomplete wizard

Integrated Development Environment – Editing forms

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Form design tool box

Form editor windowProject Navigator

Properties of objects on forms

Integrated Development Environment

The Code editor Provides a text editing area that helps to organise the code

by managing the layout, including: indenting structures and colour coding the command words, variables and comments so that they can be easily identified. Some include other features such as autocomplete wizards

Error Diagnostics Include an errors and warnings list to identify and problems

in the code The run time environment

Allows the developer to run the code during development. This can be used to check for logical errors or that the code does what it is expected to do.

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Integrated Development Environment

The translator Compiles or interprets the source code into suitable machine

code instructions that can be run on the computer. The auto documentation

A feature that takes note of all the variables, modules, subroutines and comments as the project is developed and tidies this up into a text file that can be used during any maintenance of the program.

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Task

Answer questions 1-4 page 162 in your text books.

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