A closer look at virtual programs and integrated development environments.
The computer can help us find mistakes.
And so what we talk about in this process is the idea of a program development environment, that software that we use for editing, compiling, and running programs.
Now well there's a lot of different ways to think about program development environments, but I want to talk about two time-tested options.
One of them called using virtual programs, and that's an approach that works for many different languages and systems.
It's very effective even for beginners and it's very simple and concise.
And there's another approach called the integrated development environment, which is often specific to a particular language or family of languages.
Sometimes it's useful for beginners, and it gives a variety of useful tools.
Most of you use one of these two approaches to get your first program going and we'll use them for later programs.