IDE and Compiler

List of some good IDE + Compiler for C.

Code::Blocks with Mingw (We Recommend this)

• Download Link : http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads
• Available on : Windows, Linux, Mac.

It's Free

Dev C++ with Mingw/GCC

• Download Link : http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html
• Available on : Windows.

It's Free

Xcode

• Download Link : https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/
• Available on : Mac.

It's Free

What is Compiler:

A compiler is a computer program that transforms human readable source code of another computer program into the machine readable code that a CPU can execute.

What is Interpreter:

An interpreter is a computer program that directly executes, i.e. performs, instructions written in a programming or scripting language, without previously compiling them into a machine language program.

• Interpreter Takes Single instruction as input.
• No Intermediate Object Code is Generated.
• Interpreter execute conditional control statements at a much slower speed.
• Memory Requirement is Less.
• Every time higher level program is converted into lower level program.
• Errors are displayed for every instruction interpreted (if any).
• The interpreter can immediately execute high-level programs, thus interpreters are sometimes used during the development of a program, when a programmer wants to add small sections at a time and test them quickly.