Creating your work space in Dev-C++

• To open Dev-C++ (in the lab, it's Start -> programming -> Dev-C++).

• Either click on the new project icon

• or using your mouse, navigate to, File -> new -> project, and click as shown in this image.

  
  

  • In the window that pops up, click on empty project and name the project according to your assignment for that lab week.

  • Save in the project folder you created in your file space (see the creating your file space web-tutorial).

  • When you do this, a project icon will appear in the Dev-C++ sidebar window. In this image it is labeled project1.

    
    

  • Right click on this icon and in the popup menu, select add to project as shown in this image.

    
    

  • If the open file window doesn't display your project folder navigate to that folder and select the template based file you put there. (See the Setting up template.cpp tutorial)

  • If the source code editing window doesn't show up, click on the name of the file in the sidebar and it will open in an source code editing window in Dev-C++.

    Here you are ready to edit C++ code

  • hint - When you use file -> save, in Dev-C++; do not type in a .cpp extension because Dev-C++ will do this for you.