12. Software Engineering
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What is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)?
An IDE is a set of tools and related functionality designed to maximise a programmer’s productivity.
What are the features of IDEs?
• compiler • interpreter • source code editor • syntax highlighting • automatic formatting • automatic colour coding • intelligent auto-completion of instructions
What is a compiler?
Translates source code into machine code.
What is an interpreter?
Translates each line of source code and executes it at run time.
What is a source code editor?
Allows the programmer to enter and edit code.
What is syntax highlighting?
Alerts the programmer when entering incorrect syntax.
What is automatic formatting?
Correctly indents code.
What is automatic colour coding?
Changes keywords, commands and annotation to different colours.