A good C++ programming enviornment for Mac OS X

Question

I have tried Xcode, textwrangler and Qt. I like textwrangler the best but it doesn't support C++, i.e. compiling, and checking syntax. Can you please recommend a good editor for me?

I didn't like Xcode because it guesses what function you are typing and it's not helping me learn the syntax.

Answer 1

I think you probably need to separate learning the language from learning a tool.

XCode is probably the best integrated development environment for the Mac and you will come to appreciate its autocompletion feature as it saves you a lot of typing!

If you really don't want it (and I suggest that you do!) then you can turn it off:

Goto XCode->Preferences->Text Editing

and uncheck 'suggest completions while typing'

Answer 2

Try Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

or

CodeBlocks: http://www.codeblocks.org/

Answer 3

I just started learning C++ on a mac as well. I like using Xcode to write and run the program since it does a good job of organizing all of the files for the project. Also, it will make learning objective-c easy if that is ever a goal.

I do suggest turning off the auto complete and the live error detection to improve your learning and debugging skills. I turned both off and have struggled at times but I believe that it has increased my understanding.

Best of luck either way!