You can use SDL for Graphics stuffs, its cross-platform and very easy to learn/use. I discourage you to use graphics.h/conio.h as its dos based and really backdated. Install Anjuta its a good IDE for the beginners. You'll have to install few other dependencies too. If you don't want to do that use gcc from terminal Also you can eclipse with C/C++ support, its very powerful Personally I use Vim, but I won't suggest you as it have a steep learning curve, but when you get to use it its very powerful :) to compile with default gcc filename.c In this case run the executable by ./a.out to get all warnings use gcc -Wall filename.c for debugging option use gcc -g filename.c and finally gcc -o Test filename.c this will build the executable as Test, you'll have to run using ./Test also learn to use makefile they are very usefull when you get to use them Thats for start, gcc have many options, to Debug use gdb in terminal or nemiver <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:27 AM, nasir khan <<a href="mailto:nasir8891@gmail.com">nasir8891@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I am learning C programming. Now i want to know how to use gcc or is there any better application to write C programs, where I can use graphics and other options. -- [saikat] -- ubuntu-bd mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd</a> </blockquote></div>