[C] Setting up C/C++ IDE

You've decided to take the wonderful step to learn how to code in C. You will mostly be making .exe applications, i.e. those applications you see on a black screen with white words. Nothing fancy, but that's alright. Once you get the basics straight, you can easily pick up another language and start experimenting with those fancy stuff or code games.

This is an example console you would get throughout these tutorials. Pretty cool huh?

But first, you need and IDE, or Integrated Development Environment. That's basically something that has a region for you to code, a compiler and a debugger. I use Dev C++, but there's also Eclipse that's popular. So go to the websites, look at the screenshots and decide which ones you want to use.

Then, download the executable files, click 'Next' until the end and 'Accept Terms and Agreement' then click 'Finish'. You can open your program and start tinkering around with the features to be familiar with the environment.