Compiler and IDE

What’s a compiler?

Read this blogpost, it has pretty good wording in my opinion. You may watch this video as well, for a general understanding.

Preprocessor (#include, #define)
Object files
Linking

Practical tool understanding

Installing a compiler manually (zig C++)
Compiling manually

IDE usage

Installing like visual studio (but use anything you want, I don’t care)
Using a debugger