Open a simple text editor (e.g gedit), IDE (Eclipse) or command line code editor (Nano or Vim). This post has been written for beginners who just started learning C/C++ or the programmers who have migrated from Windows to Ubuntu (although the commands are almost same for all Linux based operating system).Ĭompiling and Executing C program in Ubuntu 11.10

Most of the operating systems has been written in C language. Some of them are - GCC – The greatest compiler for C language (from FSF (‘Free Software Foundation’ by Stallman) Linux Torwalds used GCC while developing Linux Kernel), Eclipse IDE (The most popular ‘Integrated Development Environment’ for Java programmers), Netbeans, KDevelop, Codelite etc.Ĭ/C++ language is a high level programming language (although the term high and low is used in relative sense e.g C is a high level language as compared to Assembly but if we compare it with java then C is a low level programming language the term high or low basically describes the closeness with hardware). Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) is one of the most popular operating system for programming because there are lot of great open source applications, tools, compilers, debuggers, IDEs are available free of cost.

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