Installing an IDEΒΆ

Writing programs in notepad and compiling them works and is ok for small programs. But for creating and managing large projects a piece of software called and Integrated Development Environment IDE is required. The IDE used for this curriculum is NetBeans.

Download NetBeans 11.3 here.

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Launch the installer and go through the prompts.

Once installed open NetBeans and this prompt will come up.

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Hit next and go through the plugin installer. It is recommended to install all the default plugins listed. When complete the IDE window should look like this.

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