What is the best compiler?

[jasonwynn10]

Does anyone know which compiler is good for noobs, I have a noob brother... he knows nothing and im teaching him.

[squarehead]

I didn't know there were special compilers for noobs.

I am currently using the open-source IDE "Integrated Development Environment" called Code::Blocks, which comes bundled with a fairly fresh GCC compiler. It's free and easy to set up.

http://www.codeblocks.org/home

[Lowest0ne]

I would set your brother up with mingw and notepad++.

It might take a little more work to get things installed and working properly, but having the only output be to console makes it simpler to figure out what is going wrong with code.

[tybalttheappleEater]

We use Visual Studio/Linux in my university.
But I heard codeblocks is good too. With notepad++ i think you need some sort of external launcher to run a program, not sure though.

[ne555]

clang has good error messages http://clang.llvm.org/diagnostics.html

[jasonwynn10]

thanks, I'l try them all. the one i use is code::blocks 13.12 with GNU GCC compiler/debugger.