OCR J277 2.5.2: The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
The free BugBot lesson that teach this point, a robot to try it on, and the past-paper questions that test it.
What it covers
You have been using an integrated development environment, or IDE, since your first lesson: every Try-it cell is one. An IDE puts the tools a programmer needs in one place, so writing, running, testing and fixing a program all happen in one window. Professional IDEs such as VS Code and PyCharm have far more features, but the core ones are the same, and they are all in the cell in front of you.
- The editor
- Error diagnostics
- Running and debugging
- The translator
- The rest of the toolbox
Or do it in the simulator, with tasks that mark themselves
Lessons that teach it
- F6.6 The IDE Robust programs
Editors, error diagnostics, the run-time environment and the translator, in the cell you use.
Try it on a robot
The task from F6.6 The IDE, running here. Change the program and press Run.
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