For old PC with low Memory and processor i.e. : 512 RAM and Pentium IVQuincy 2005
For high end pc a.k.a Core i7 and 16 GB RAM Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Express Edition
for other alternatives (please check out : )
http://www.wtfdiary.com/2012/08/8-best-and-free-ide-for-c-and-c.html
and i have heard Qt IDE is very good c++ compiler + ide and size is 444 mb
some say it is high end but other say it could be used for simple tasks too
experts please comment............
if you know or use even better ides then please share it with me
Well, the site you posted doesn't look that shiny to me. DevC++, listed 2nd, is old and unsupported.
Anyway, IDE doesn't really have that much to do with your PC. From what I see, most users tend to use either Visual Studio, or Code::Blocks. I use C::B and I am satisfied. Anyway, I would suggest you to try one or both of these. These are good IDE.
I run Visual Studio 2012 express on a 7 year old laptop with Windows XP and 2GB of RAM - the experience is perfectly adequate for simple text-based code development involving small projects; although I wouldn't fancy loading huge solutions on it or doing my mainstream development, I tend to use it for small test projects and debugging small modules at a customer site without any issues.
Also, contrary to the information on that site, Visual Studio Express is free - it's not trial, and it doesn't expire after 30 days
as @MatthewRock said, Bloodshed stopped supporting Dev-C++ a long time ago. There's a newer version called wxDev-C++, although this looks to be a dying project too - it hasn't been updated in almost 2 years: http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/
Borland C++ and Turbo C are even older (Borland don't even exist any more).
Turbo C is an absolutely dire, terrible IDE which should never be used by anyone for any kind of development - it's a bad learning tool for C++, and it has no modern nor useful features whatsoever. Frankly anyone learning C++ would be better off using Notepad and a free-to-download compiler than using the ancient toolchain with Turbo C
The Borland product line lives on, under the Embarcadero company. It is probably of most interest to those transitioning from an earlier version of C++ Builder. http://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder
An up-to-date version of Dev C++ is also available. This is the Orwell version, last updated May 2013 (and a newer update is in progress too). http://orwelldevcpp.blogspot.com/
yes.... i completly agree wid you on nightmare turbo c infact Cygwin would look good compared to it all that comand line stuff and trying to find your compiled executable from bin folder but moron curriculum developer in india still makes us student to go through it
Turbo C is an absolutely dire, terrible IDE which should never be used by anyone for any kind of development - it's a bad learning tool for C++, and it has no modern nor useful features whatsoever. Frankly anyone learning C++ would be better off using Notepad and a free-to-download compiler than using the ancient toolchain with Turbo C
Also, contrary to the information on that site, Visual Studio Express is free - it's not trial, and it doesn't expire after 30 days
but forget 2012,..................1998 Visual c++ 6.0 crashes on my old p4 pc with 512 ram thus after lot and lots of troubles i finally have settled with
Some people don't like Qt Creator, but I really do like it. The text-highlighting is so much better than in visual studio, though you can find extensions for VS (for $$$). There are not as many automated options as VS, and the solution explorer certainly isn't as good, I also don't like the drop-down menu that you use to navigate open files, but for coding or looking at source/header files I love it.
I tried to download VS2012 but it kept making me go to the VS2013 download instead. But the computer I use would be too dated for VS2013. So for now I am still stuck with Visual C++ 2010 express. Its not bad though.