I have been playing with the Raspberry Pi single board computers for two years now but always using code written by other people. I used to be OK at C++ programming but am looking to brush up on it in the next couple of months - an alternative to watching YouTube videos...
When you write code, you use an editor and there are programming editors that integrate with the compiler and other bits and pieces of code generation. This is called an IDE - Integrated Development Environment. Once such example is Microsoft's Visual Studio. I used to be good at VS5 but they are up to 2017 now so a lot has changed. They do offer a free version but their cheapest commercial version is $539/year
Fortunately, the open source community has come out with Code::Blocks. I have downloaded it and playing around with it. Looks pretty nice and it works with compilers that support 64-bit code. It compiles to Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems so will work just fine on the Pi.
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