IDE

Concept

Integrated Development Environment(IDE)

• one tool to support development
• code editor:
  • syntax highlighting
  • auto-completion
  • easy code navigation
  • error highlighting
  • code-snippet generation
• compiler and interpreter
• debugger
• support for testing

Debugging

• discovering defects in the program
• pause and step through code
• not:
  • using print statements
  • manually tracing the code