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==Editors and IDE==

For text editing there can be only [http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Notepad++]

IDE I recommend Eclipse [http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ Eclipse]

===Microchip===
Microchip PIC Development [http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/family/mplabx/ MPLab X]

Microchip [http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en_us/devtools/mplabxc/ XC Compilers]

[http://www.microchip.com/mla Microchip Application Libraries]

===Qt===
Windows/Linux Interface coding I recommend [http://qt-project.org/ Qt]

Along with Qt I recommend using the [http://qt-project.org/wiki/EmbeddedWidgetDemos Qtembedded Widgets]

To draw advanced graphs easily use [http://qwt.sourceforge.net Qwt - Qt Widgets for Technical Applications.]

===USB===
USBinterfacing I use [http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/libusb-win32/wiki LibUSB-win32]

==Compilers==

Stand alone C/C++ Compiler for small applications use [http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/21205 Borland Command Line Tools]. The advantage of using Borland is that you do not need external .dll files to run your applications

Also use [http://www.mingw.org/ MinGW]. This is needed for Qt. This requires shipping a .dll with you applications.

Very powerful but very expensive is Intel C Compiler. This is the compiler I use for all my research. It is very expensive unless you are in an academic institute, then the institute will probably have a license or you can get a student license from Intel.

Also, very powerful but expensive is Microsoft Visual Studio.

==Image Editors and Viewers==

Quick and easy image viewing [http://irfanview.com/ Irfanview]

SVG Editor [http://inkscape.org/ Inkscape]

Easy and free paint program [http://www.getpaint.net/ Paint.NET]

==PCB Layout==

Used to be the hobbyist favourite but quite expensive is [http://www.cadsoftusa.com/ Eagle]

New favourite and what I will be using from now on is [http://www.kicad-pcb.org KiCAD]

==Other General Applications==

Very handy with libraries such as Qt, OpenCV is [http://www.cmake.org/ CMake]

Also to listen to music while coding [http://www.winamp.com/ Winamp]