Ooh, I don't like the notepad step. Are there any alternatives?

Darn! You got me. Cheesy

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html is quite comfortable. Colors and stuff Cool

If you feel hardcore and want a 'compile' button on your text editor try
http://www.codeblocks.org/
or
http://www.eclipse.org/

Judging most posts in this thread qt and c++ might be a bit too much, if you want to get up and running faster try
http://www.python.org/
with
http://www.wxpython.org/

Have fun Grin