Introduction

Quincy is an integrated development environment (IDE) that integrates a programmer's editor, compiler, and debugger into one Windows 95/98/NT/2000 application. Quincy uses the MinGW port of the GCC compiler system.

Quincy is a teaching tool distributed on CD-ROM with books that I have written about C and C++. Quincy is integrated with the example programs in the books that it accompanies. A special C++ tool button launches a table of contents window that opens the source code files associated with examples in the book. This document tells you how to use Quincy to run these examples and write programs of your own so that you can experiment with the lessons that the books teach.

You might have downloaded Quincy instead of getting it with a book. In that case the instructions for working with Example Programs will not apply to you, but you can still use Quincy to develop programs of your own.

This document assumes that you already know how to run Windows and its applications.

What Does the Name Quincy Mean?

Quincy is named after my daughter Wendy's cat. As a child in the 1970s, Wendy was a fan of the TV shows, The Odd Couple and Quincy, both of which starred Jack Klugman, who played Oscar Madison and a medical examiner named Quincy in those shows. When Wendy brought home a tiny white kitten with blue eyes, she didn't know its sex. Choosing from Jack, Oscar, and Quincy, she decided that Quincy was the most gender-unspecific.

Quincy lived many years and was a beloved pet to Wendy as a child, my wife and I when Wendy went to college, and then to Wendy and her family after Wendy married and had children of her own.

Oh, yeah, Quincy was a female.

To get the latest version of Quincy...

http://www.alstevens.com/quincy.html

Al Stevens
al@alstevens.com
September, 2002

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