IDE’s
Integrated development environment
Used for developing programs made from multiple components
3 facilities
Ease of use facilities
Debugging
Interpreters / Compilers
Ease of use facilities
line numbers
Auto completion
Colour coding
Error checking
Auto completion
Automatically writes the layout of all the tags for you
Also auto indents code
Colour Coding
Highlights keywords in another colour
Error checking
Shows a different colour when using an inbuilt word
Debugging
Deals with logical errors not picked up by ease of use facilities
Breakpoints
Jumps from one part of code to another
Crash dump
Collects all variables / values at point which program crashes