UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey

I'm new, as you might have guessed :P

I have a school assignment that involves fork(), and im not gonna ask for the solution but WHERE to actually write the code..

I'm suppose to make a program, where the assignment itself is not really important but I cant seem to find the right compiler or what else to make this work.

Netbeans, whines about it cant find this and that, it doesnt even know what iostream is O_o..
Dev cant find anything related with fork..
BlueJ have no clue what fork is..

Before you start, you're suppose to learn about Unix processes and alittle about how to use some compiler called "Vi" by going through the putty.exe terminal. Which itself is a nightmare, not really but close :P

Am I suppose to use the Vi compiler or does any program work? I'm not sure but I think this might be the only Unix based assignment we will have and its very little information, maybe I have the wrong litterature, I dont know..

Ive written alittle code already, of course its far from finished since I have no clue about Unix and fork-ing.. and YES that is Java class code,
not that modifying it so it should have worked with C++, made a difference..

Well, didnt I write a short story..

What I need help with is understanding how the world of Unix works since I've never crossed over to the other side :P

Edit:
Oh, you are suppose to name school, teacher info:
Gotland University (Advanced Webbprogramming, 3 years), Sweden, Europe, Tellus :P
Håkan something, cant check his surname right now because of site loginproblems..

vi is an editor. cc is a compiler for c programs
This is a C program

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
/* filename = myprog.c */
int main(void)
{

   printf("Hello world\n");
   return 0;
}

This compiles and runs a C program called myprog.c

Code:

> cc myprog.c -o myprog
> ./myprog
Hello world
>

You should post homework in the homework forum.
I'm going to close this thread. If you want more homework help please post there.

As a general comment, you seem very confused about things in your class.
fork() creates a child process, which is an independent standalone copy of the parent process.