My most-used software development enviroments

My favorite text editors are gvim and notepad++, which are known to most of programmers.

Dev-cpp is used for very simple C and C++ console programming tests, which also provides gcc and g++ compiler(version 3.4.2) for other IDEs and LIBs such as CodeBlocks, wxWidgets and QT. Remeber to add "X:\Dev-Cpp\bin" to enviroment variables->path.

CodeBlocks, C::B in short, is a powerful open-source, cross-platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages. I choose it for wxWidgets and qt4 development with wxSmith plugin.
Next, I'll instruct how to develop the qt4 application with C::B. Firstly, download and install codeblocks-8.02 and qt-win-opensource-4.4.0-mingw.exe(the newest version is 4.4.2). Secondly. add "X:\Qt\4.4.0\bin" to enviroment variables->path. Thirdly, open C::B, create a new QT4 project, then when you are asked the QT base, fill in the blank with "X:\Qt\4.4.0". When all done, build and run it.

Visual Studio 2005 is used for commercial software develop working with VSS, sometimes for study demos, too . If you want to work high efficiently, intall several plugins such as visual assist and Refactor! for C++. And I found it's a good habit of always adding your projects to source control.

My favoriate Java IDE is eclipse, which is suitable for java\C++\python development. I usually use easyeclipse-desktop-java, because it's integrated with SWing and SWT visual UI Designer. Before all, you should install JDK-1.5.0 and add "X:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_04\bin" to enviroment variables->path. However, If you are a new java learner, you'd better begin with JDK+notepad++.

Proper tools can speed your developments, but most of all, you like it.
Enjoy it!