[Topolomancer]

My first IDE when I started to be excited about programming! I vividly remember a book that was about teaching C++ to kids; I devoured it and spent a glorious summer just fiddling with what I thought was very complex code at the time. How time flies...

[professoretc]

Yep, I'm pretty sure Borland C++ was what I used in college in my first "real" programming class. The nice thing about the older IDEs was how easy it was to get started programming: start it up and you're looking at a blank source file; often you can compile and run without even officially saving it! Made it really easy to try things out. The only "IDE" that comes close to that level of immediacy today would be something like Processing.