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Common tools and facilities in IDEs questions

Q1. What is an IDE?
Q2. What is a ‘text editor’ in an IDE for?
Q3. What type of errors are the debugging tools and error diagnostics tools in an IDE trying to find?
Q4. What is a translator?
Q5. What is a ‘runtime environment’ in an IDE?
Q6. Why do you need to document programs? 
Q7.
What is meant by a bug?
Q8. Investigate some IDEs e.g. for Scratch. Does it have all of the features discussed in the notes?
Q9. What is the type of error called in programming where you misspell a keyword e.g. PIRNT instead of PRINT?
Q10. What kinds of error are translator diagnostics in an IDE designed to find? (HINT: See Q9.)

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