From the course: C++ IDE Overview

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Project layout

Project layout

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Project layout

- [Narrator] It is important for a C++ programmer to understand the layout of their project and where they are stored in the file system. Close any open source files. Collapse any expanded projects. Right click on my workspace. Click new, new project, choose simple executable g++, next. Let's give this project the name averages. Click next. Validate our tool chain, and then click finish. And we double click on the averages to make it the default project. And then we hover over the project name. Right click the project to open the context menu. Select open containing folder. Now we open another file explorer window. We go to desktop, we go to our exercise files, and we are looking for 02_05 and we go to the begin. And we're going to do a control a to select both of these files. A control c to copy them. And close this window. We go back here to main and we do a control v. Go ahead and replace the file and destination. And we can close this window. Then we do a build. Clean workspace…

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