Source Code Editors for Windows

If you have managed to install MinGW using the instructions on my last post, you must be wondering what text editor you may use. In its purest sense, you can use any text editor like notepad. Just save your source files with the .c file extension.

But the thing is, notepad lacks that token coloring scheme and line numbering we see when we use gedit in linux (ubuntu). Fortunately, there are a number of free and open source text editors around. The following are just two:

1. Crimson Editor is a freeware source code editor for Windows. Click here to visist its official site.
2. Notepad++ is also a relatively well-known source code editor. Unlike the latter, Notepad++ is not only free but is also open-source. Meaning, people may download and edit its source code legally. Click here for its offical site.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
- Brian Kernighan