TUTORIAL: How to download CodeBlocks on Windows 10?

CodeBlocks is open source and cross platform IDE (integrated development environment). The good thing about CodeBlocks is it can be downloaded for free. It is usually used for C/C++ programming. 17.12 is the latest release of CodeBlocks (when this tutorial is written). It needs to be installed before it can be used. This tutorial is focused on the installation of CodeBlocks on Windows 10.

*The ways to download for other operating systems might be different.

1. Go to http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads




2. Click Download the binary release




3. Select the file based on your operating system. If you are using Windows, choose codeblocks-17.12mingw-setup.exe

4. After the file has been downloaded, click on the downloaded file and the setup window will be popped up.

5. Just choose the default options (you can choose to create Desktop shortcut) and continue to installation.

6. Once installed, click CodeBlocks on desktop. Try to run a  C/C++ program to see whether your CodeBlocks is working.

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