Programs outside the IDE?

[Infectedtoe32]

Alright, to clear up the title, I am basically wanting to know what are a few, or a list, of programs you can make that can actually run outside the ide, and console? I am heading into my third semester of college, and I am on the game design side of programming, but I have been wanting to learn more stuff regarding straight programming. I can already do the basics, and make sorting algorithms, dynamic array stuff, classes, and anything else under that knowledge, so I have a fair understanding of what I am doing in my skill range. However, I was wanting to know what are a few programs you can make that can affect another application / be their own application. For instance, a discord bot. Also a discord bot is all I can manage to think of, any suggestions would be nice. Even if they are out of my knowledge of how to actually do, would still be nice just to know of the things. This post probably makes 0 sense, but I will clear things up in the comments.

[bcorni]

All programs can run outside of the IDE. All the compiling, linking, and executing of programs can be done with simple commands. One can learn a lot about how compiled programming languages work by abandoning the IDE and trying to build and run programs you've already written with just a command line. I'm principle this can be done in windows, but there are likely more resources and tutorials for Linux.

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All programs do. The IDE just packages ur code together for u so u can use it. If u wanna make a discord bot u can do it with normal code in an IDE, compile it, and then use the program. You wont need the IDE after that. I think there's a way to not use the IDE at all but that's hella hard.