Freeware

[Jonathan]

Do any of you know of any good freeware programs for C++ or other programming languages? I need one that helps a beginner... maybe like "HTML-Kit" The html editor... let me know

[jeffmott]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/
**note: this choice is assuming you're running windows.

[JHL]

JEdit
http://www.jedit.org

*you must be able to run java to run it.

[spufi]

Any and everything you need to get started in Java is free to download. You need the SDK, downloadable at Sun's Java website, and a text editor. Notepad works, but I use my favorite text editor Edit Plus which isn't free, but there are free text editors out there. Text Pad has a free trail version, but the way they do the trail period is really open ended and can be used for basically as long as you want to. If I used it for doing something for profit then I would drop the $27 for it. Well, I already dropped $30 on Edit Plus, so I don't need Text Pad. :p You can also download the widely agreed upon best book to learn Java from the net for free. The author is making a newer edition and is putting up the old edition with some modifications on the net. The book can be downloaded here.

EDIT: Looks like the new book is out. If you want a more "real world" examples than a good Java book to get is Murach's Beginning Java 2. You have to buy that though.

http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/