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Hi guys I want to mix it up a little bit and get back into c++ I have read a few c++ books but have not really built anything,since I am now more comfortable at programming in general thanks to the great people of coderanch I have decided to try some c++,as I said I'm not a total new comer to it,anyway so when I was coding with c++ I used Code Blocks but in my opinion it sucks there is no recommendations like eclipse or intelij for Java not a smart IDE at all

I want an IDE that is free(open source) and much like eclipse for c++


anyway I downloaded visual studio,I hear it's good but one question and this scares me when I go to create a file in a class it says create a visual cpp file but I want to program with c++ not visual c++ are hey the same thing? is the syntax the same? are all the standard libraries available to me in this IDE such as the standard library itself?

thanks =)
 
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also when using visual studio I noticed that it is nothing like eclipse

for example I tried to view all the functions of the string class

and when I hovered over it it game me a lot of well to me what was mumbo jumbo

public : int std::string::compare(const char *ptr)

I mean I want to scroll through the functions and find if that function returns a bool,int,chat,string,*string,*int, and what it's parameters

from that above I don't know if the compare function returns an int,or if ir returns a string because at the start it has an int then followed by std:: then a string the only thing I can take away from it is it takes a char pointer as the parameter,


thanks
 
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Have you tried Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers found here: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-cc-developers/keplersr2
 
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Adam Chalkley wrote:I want an IDE that is free(open source) and much like eclipse for c++


Does this mean you have tried it?
 
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Duplicating discussion in our IDEs forum.
 
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