When talking about free C/C++ IDE's you can't ignore VSE2008 from Microsoft! VSE is a very big set of programs, must be installed on a hard drive, and isn't the easiest interface to work with, but it is a very good IDE!
An especially, neat thing about VSE is you can add the free Dark GDK to VSE. The Dark GDK is a very nice graphics and gaming library that was originally part of Dark BASIC, but was ported into a C++ library which can be easily added to the Visual Studio Express environment . I've seen true newbies to programming hack out a simple graphics game within a couple of weeks using Dark GDK and Dark BASIC, and it's just as easy with C++.
I highly recommend Visual Studio Express 2008, especially if you will be working on a simple computer most of the time. The learning curve for the Visual Studio IDE is steeper than several other IDE's, but in the long run it is worth it. Once you have a handle on the VS interface you'll find it easy to transfer your skills to Visual Basic, Visual C++, etc, etc, etc.
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