how to set up compilation and execution for the MinGW C compiler.The instructions use as running examples the following activities: Full detailed instructions are available in the TextPad 'help'. This short guide summarizes how to enable the personalization. The TextPad available on lab machines has already been configured for most common uses as necessary in the particular courses. Setting it up to work effectively is fairly easy and can increase productivity for a user. Textpad allows the extra features of linking to commonly used programs directly, for example a C compiler. It is well worth downloading it and paying the modest fee to use it on your own machine (plus it is the ethical thing to do as in the future you will like to be paid for your efforts as a software producer!).

The CSC department has a licence for it and it is thus available in all labs machines. TextPad is an excellent editor for the Windows environment. Setting up direct links to compiling and executing for C, Java and ARM programming

Short guide on how to configure 'Tools' and 'Classes' in TextPad

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