G+_Joe C. Hecht Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Question for Shannon: In episode 4, You ran one of the example programs from an IDE running on a MAC, and when it ran, there was an extra window that popped up, and you commented that you did not know what it was for (and asked listeners to submit answers). Did you ever find out what that extra window was for? While I am not familiar with that IDE, I am familiar with writing compilers and IDE's, and I was thinking that it was probably either be a window for the debugger to output messages to, or possibly echos the output from the system's "stderr" channel to the window. It is worth noting that in most programming languages allow a programmer to output "debug" messages to a special place to help diagnose errors in a program. Hope that helps! TJoe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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