what type of hardware equipments are appropriate for programming?

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what type of hardware equipments are appropriate for programming?

Answer 1

The real question is how much time you plan on spending in any one sitting programming. I do a fair amount of programming, and have a few requirements that must be met. First and most importantly is a very comfortable chair. When I program I tend to have a lot of different windows open, so I have two 21" monitors set at 1280x1024(could do 1600x1200,personal preference on not going blind.) An argonomic keyboard for comfort and a very nice optical mouse. Now depending on the type of programming you are going to be doing and the amount of patience you have that will effect the type of computer hardware you want. If you are going to be doing 3D graphics obviously you will want a decent 3D card, and probably a good audio card. If the programs you will be writing are going to be fairly large( ie., games, full application ) then you are going to want a fast computer, something right near the top of the value curve for processors. There is nothing more boring then waiting for a program to compile when you've just made a tiny change. In addition you will want at least 1gb of ram, possibly more if you like to leave applications open while you do other things. I would also recommend using Linux as your primary programming OS. One, it will actually use the ram you have(windows is horrible with memory usage, Two if you are a good programmer you can help with any number of open source Linux programs and help society and just about every language has a free compiler for Linux. Hope this helps, this is about the setup I have, with a few minor changes.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Actually surprisingly meagre amount of hardware will suffice.

Most uber programmers I know learnt programming with 486 type PCs.

What you will need is a good IDE (ok.. even that is debatable), but as long as your IDE/compiler loads, dont think you will need anything fancy.

Once you migrate to program hardware, like write device drivers, then however your requirements could change. But for starting, a basic computer will suffice

Answer 4

Well, not a very special one, but it depends on the type of programming you wanna learn. I have a normal PC, Penitum 4, I use C++, Pascal, Assembly & Visual Studio on it, & I have no problems. But if you wanna program graphical softwares, you'de better use an AMD CPU which has better performance than intel on graphics.

Answer 5

That depends upon the application u r using for coding.

.net needs 128RAM min n works on XP n 2000Win win service pack 2.And IIS should also be enabled.

C,C++ editors works on almost every machine.



It all depends on the s/w u r using for coding

Answer 6

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Answer 7

My frend, that actually depends on in which specific language are you working in and more over what all tools are you going to use.........?