Understanding C++ development environment

[Dowal]

Hi I am a student taking Basic C++ prorgraming in the College of Don Bosco here in Papua New Guinea I am really keen to learn and understand how the programming evironment works such as the Editor phase, Preprocessor etc please help me with this.

[TheIdeasMan]

Try this:

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

[pogrady]

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/introduction/

[Chervil]

This really needs a simple diagram to show the flow.
Here's a very quick overview:
http://i47.tinypic.com/30cq82s.png