TURBO C IDE• Introduction• Familiarization on its environment

Turbo C

• is a popular version of the C programming language, designed for IBM personal computers and compatibles.

•The Turbo C package contains two interrelated sets of tools – the LANGUAGE and the DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

The C language

•provides the operations, instructions, and commands that you use to build your own programs.

Turbo C package interrelated sets of tools

Turbo C development environment•was a Borland IDE (Integrated Development

Environment) and compiler for the C programming language.

•was introduced in 1987 and was noted for its IDE, small size, speed, manuals and low price.

•was replaced with Turbo C++ in May 1990.

• In 2006, Borland reintroduced the Turbo moniker.

Turbo C package interrelated sets of tools

Version History

VERSION 1.0o The first integrated edit-compile-run development

environment for C on IBM PCs developed on May 13, 1987. It was bought from another company and branded with the “Turbo” name, as Wizard C by Bob Jervis. It was known as Turbo Pascal, at this time it did not have pull-down menus. It can run in 387KB of memory and allows inline assembly.

VERSION 1.5o It has more sample programs, improved manuals and bug

fixes developed on January 1988. It was introduced on five 360KB diskettes of uncompressed files with sample C programs, including mcalc (stripped down spreadsheet). This version uses , a header file that provide fast PC-specific console I/O routines

VERSION 2.0o The first “blue screen” version released by American

in late 1988. The American release did not have Turbo Assembler or a separate debugger. It was sold together as professional suite of tools which includes Turbo C, Asm, and Debugger. Another release featured Turbo Debugger, Turbo Assembler and graphics library.

Please take note that the name “Turbo C” was used after version 2.0, it is because Turbo C and Turbo C++ (1990) were folded into a single product. The next version was named Borland C++ eventually reappearing as Turbo C++ 3.0. There was never a 2.0 of the Turbo C++ product series.

Four Parts of Turbo C Environment

Main MenuEditor Status Line and Edit WindowMessage WindowHot Keys

Four Parts of Turbo C Environment

MAIN MENUThe main menu contents or options instructs Turbo C to do something as indicated in the list of menu.

Four Parts of Turbo C Environment

EDITOR STATUS LINE AND EDIT WINDOW

Editor status line and edit window is the place in Turbo C where you type your program and where you see the current line and column of the text you typed.

Four Parts of Turbo C Environment

MESSAGE WINDOWMessage Window is located beneath the middle of edit window and hotkeys. It is used to displays various compiler or linker messages.

Four Parts of Turbo C Environment

HOT KEYSHot keys is located at the bottom of the Turbo C's opening screen. It refers to shortcut or shorthand for selecting a menu. Two sets of hotkeys are available: the normal and the alternate set.