CS 370: Resources

This page contains links to useful resources.

CLion This is the IDE we will be using in this course. You will need to create an account using your YCP email to receive a free license.

Windows 10

Visual Studio 2019

Download and install Visual Studio 2019 - the Community Edition is sufficient. During the installation when you are given options of features to add, select Desktop development with C++. You should be able to sign in with your YCP email (or create a new account using it).

CLion

Create a JetBrains account with your YCP email to obtain a free license.
Download and install CLion and accept the defaults during the installation process. You should see a screen for the Visual Studio toolchain, be sure to select the AMD64 architecture. Note: If Visual Studio is not the default toolchain, use the up arrow above the list until it shows (default).

Mac OSX (Catalina)

XCode

From the Mac App store, download and install XCode
In the Terminal, install the command line tools using
```
 $ sudo xcode-select --install
```

CLion

Create a JetBrains account with your YCP email to obtain a free license.
Download and install CLion and accept the defaults during the installation process.

Linux - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

Debian based distros (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, Mint)

From the command line, install the g++ compiler and the glfw/glew libraries

$ sudo apt-get install g++
$ sudo apt-get install libglfw3-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libglew-dev

CLion

Create a JetBrains account with your YCP email to obtain a free license.
Download CLion and follow the installation instructions for Linux.
Accept the defaults during the installation process.