To create software elements, as well as individual applications, it is not enough to have knowledge of the basics of a particular language. A modern programmer will need a programming environment installed on his personal computer. It is with its help that work on future programs will be comfortable and gain high performance indicators. The integrated programming environment in the classical form should have in its arsenal a regular text editor, tools for automating the assembly and a debugger, as well as an interpreter or compiler, it is possible that both of them are in the utility kit.
Using a text editor as a source code editor allows, using the rules for working with a certain type of text utilities, to type and edit the source code of the created programs. The modern programming environment, the built-in editor gives the ability to check the syntax depending on the language used.
There are programming environments that allow you to work with several languages. An example of such universal software packages is Embarcadero RAD Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans, Qt Creator, or Microsoft Visual Studio. But usually the programming environment is “sharpened" for a specific language. In this series, prominent representatives are the following: Dev-C ++, Visual Basic, Delphi.
As a special case, you can consider the environment of visual development. A feature of this type of programming environment is the presence in its functionality of the ability to visually edit the program interface. This ability is realized using blocks of the most frequently used code in the form of graphic objects. The graphical development environment has found wide application in the creation of applications and the development of a user graphic interface (GUI).
The advantages of this type of programming environment are the speed of development, ease of development, standard type of appearance of programs. Among the shortcomings, one can single out attachment to a specific development environment; switching to another environment is carried out with certain difficulties. Also, a programming environment of this type has difficulty using components that depart from established standards and has undocumented features of the components.
Since visual development environments are characterized by the presence of their own project storage format, the transition to another environment may be hindered by the intolerance of the project properties, as well as some of its parts. An example is the proprietary libraries of the development environment used.
The development of new programming languages allows you to make some changes to them. So, the Delphi programming environment, which is based on Pascal, is a new programming language in its functionality and capabilities.
After assessing the degree of complexity and predicting what kind of tools are needed to solve specific goals within the framework of the project under development , from the variety of existing development environments, the most suitable for solving a particular problem is selected.
Indeed, the full functioning of the software depends on the correctness of the designed software, taking into account the development and implementation of the latest technologies. Of great importance in solving this problem is the ability to transfer the development of new software to an adjacent development environment.
But even the presence of cutting-edge programming environments that greatly simplify the work of not only a professional programmer, but also a person. taking the first steps towards the creation of applications, programs and other software, does not forget about the development elements invented in the last century. Despite their archaic nature and to some extent slowness, they are still in demand today. They are actively used by modern programmers.