IDE Development Course - 2023

TODO

Lectures

• Lecture 1: Introduction to IDE Development

  Discusses the significance and components of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), covering topics like code editing, debugging, and version control.

• Lecture 2: The Craft of Plain Text

  Delves into understanding plain text, text editing, rendering, and text editor workflow, establishing a foundational understanding for working with text in IDEs.

• Lecture 3: Text Editor in IDE

  Extensive exploration of text editor functionalities within IDEs, including syntax highlighting, error highlighting, code navigation, and document markup among others.

• Lecture 4: Handling Projects in IDE

  Focuses on project models, Virtual File Systems (VFS), Program Structure Interface (PSI), caching, and unit of work in IDEs, essential for managing and organizing software development tasks.

• Lecture 5: Understanding Programming Language Part 1

  Introduces finite state automatons, formal languages, abstract syntax trees, lexical and syntax analysis, crucial for understanding and processing programming languages in IDEs.

• Lecture 6: Understanding Programming Language Part 2

  Dive into the intricacies of semantic analysis, explore the role of symbol tables in programming languages, and understand how IDEs manage symbol resolution and scopes.

• Lecture 7: Understanding Programming Language Part 3

  Delve into syntax-directed translation, explore type systems and type checking, elucidating their pivotal roles in IDE development and programming.

• Lecture 8: Understanding Programming Language Part 4

  Lecture explores polymorphism, type inference and introduces static analysis, crucial for understanding programming languages and their application in IDE and compiler design.

• Lecture 9: Dynamic Analysis

  Lecture is covering topics such as performance profiling, memory profiling, and test coverage to understand and optimize a program's runtime behavior​.

• Lecture 10: Debugging

  Lecture offers an in-depth exploration of debugging in software development, encompassing the evolution, types, techniques, and modern trends of debugging tools within IDEs.

• Lecture 11: Advanced Features

  An exploration of advanced IDE features focusing on smart search, navigation, code refactoring and code completion tools.

• To be continued...

Practical Assignment

• Mini-IDE for IDELang

  Assigns the development of a mini-IDE for IDELang, emphasizing core text editing, syntax highlighting, error detection, and modern development environment features, providing hands-on experience in IDE development.

Lecturer