IDE

IDE

An Integrated Development Environment(IDE) is a software application that provides all facilities to computer programmers for software development. IDE consists of source code editor, automation tools, and debugger. Some IDE such like Eclipse and NetBeans have compiler and interpreter or both. others, such as SharpDevelop and Lazarus do not have them.

This program typically provides many features for authoring, modifying, compiling, deploying and debugging software. This contrasts with software development using unrelated tools, such as vi, GCC or make. Has graphical user interface. Data stricture browsers like class browser and object browser. 

Example of IDE

Microsoft Visual Studio

NetBeans

PyCharm

IntelliJ IDEA

Eclipse

Code::Blocks

Aptana Studio 3

Komodo

RubyMine

Xcode etc.....