Programming

Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in python. It is based on the cross platform Qt gui toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control. It is designed to be usable as everdays' quick and dirty editor as well as being usable as a professional project management tool integrating many advanced features Python offers the professional coder.

The GNU Emacs Manual calls Emacs the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor, but this description tells beginners little about what Emacs is capable of. To give you an idea, here is a sampling of the things you can do with Emacs:

wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (the wxPython common files)

wxWidgets (formerly known as wxWindows) is a class library for C++ providing GUI components and other facilities on several popular platforms (and some unpopular ones as well).

This package provides support utilities and common files for wxPython2.8.

The Eclipse Platform is an open and extensible platform for anything and yet nothing in particular. It provides a foundation for constructing and running integrated software-development tools. The Eclipse Platform allows tool builders to independently develop tools that integrate with other people's tools so seamlessly you can't tell where one tool ends and another starts.

Cervisia is a front-end for the CVS version control system client. In addition to basic and advanced CVS operations, it provides a convenient graphical interface for viewing, editing, and manipulating files in a CVS repository or working directory. It includes tools designed to ease the use of CVS, such as a log browser, conflict resolver, and changelog editor that checks for incorrect formatting.

BOUML is a Unified Modeling Language editor for Qt. You can use it to create nearly all of UML diagrams. BOUML can generate code from those diagrams in C++, Java and IDL, and can also reverse existing code.

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites

BASIC-256 is an easy to use version of BASIC designed to teach young children the basics of computer programming. It uses traditional control structures like gosub, for/next, and goto, which helps kids easily see how program flow-control works.