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How can I write/debug my computer programs at home (or how can I install Xcode at home)?

April 26, 2017computer programs debug Home install write xcode

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How can I write/debug my computer programs at home (or how can I install Xcode at home)?

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Unless you have a recent vintage Apple Mac computer of your own, you won’t be able to use Xcode at home/college. Xcode is Apple’s own software development and compiler/debugging suite which is only available for Mac OS X based machines. However it is based around the free GCC compiler collection and there are freely available GCC compiler based alternatives for Windows and Linux computers that can be used to write and debug the code you write here in the lab on the Macs (all the underlying tools you need are the same across all computer platforms). We have a short document outlining which software development environments are available for your home computer (be it Apple Mac OS X, Windows or Linux based) and how to get started installing them.