Wikipedia defines an IDE as:
“integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of a source code editor, a compiler and/or interpreter, build automation tools, and (usually) a debugger.”
QBasic
The first programs I wrote was in BASIC using my P1 75 Mhz computer.
Back in primary school the IT teacher gave BASIC lessons at R10 a hour giving me my first taste of programming.
A little more research on Wikipedia revealed that I was actually using a variant of BASIC called QuickBasic.
So my first ever IDE was QBasic:
“QBasic is an IDE and interpreter for a variant of the BASIC programming language which is based on QuickBasic. Code entered into the IDE is compiled to an intermediate form, and this intermediate form is immediately interpreted on demand within the IDE.”
Don’t you just love the good old days…
