Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

Using Visual Studio

The full-version Visual Studio (not just Visual Studio Code) will greatly aid your development of C++ programs, like the final project. (Note that Visual Studio on Mac does not support C++, so this is just for Windows users.)

You can Visual Studio Community Edition for free. Knowing how to use Visual Studio is a great job skill!

Here is a 12-minute tutorial on how to use Visual Studio.

When installing Visual Studio, select “Desktop development with C++” as shown in this figure.

Xcode for macOS

Although there is a macOS version of Visual Studio, it does not support C++ development. There are several other IDEs for C++ development on a Mac, but the default choice is Apple's Xcode.