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I've just started learning C programming, using Code::Blocks as my IDE. I've got a quick question about the program settings I'm hoping someone can help me with.

Whenever I start typing in a printf, this little box pops in with some text I don't understand. It looks like an auto-complete feature or maybe a code suggestion, but it's very distracting since I'm still new to learning the language and it blocks parts of the code I've already typed in. For what it's worth, this is the string I'm referring to:


Is there a way to turn this off? I've gone through the editor settings, but I either a) don't see it in there, or b) don't recognize it as such (a lot of the settings I don't understand quite yet).

Thanks to anyone who can help me out! It's a dumb little issue, but I figure it can't hurt to ask.

C programming? I use codeblocks myself but I'm not 100% sure how well it supports it, everybody uses C++ now and I know for sure that works, sometimes though if you're using something you need to make a console application and manually link to the libraries if you even need any. You should also post up your code to make sure that everybody can see whether it's not just a classic mistake that's causing the error, I've had this loads of times where I've been struggling with a problem and it's either one line of code or me misreading a section that's caused the problem and I just haven't seen it.

I don't think it's an error. I'm still at the bare basics level and the example code runs fine. Here (https://i.imgur.com/SEWr8xs.jpg) is a screenshot of what I'm talking about.

It looks like a code suggestion or something similar. It usually pops up over code I've written or blocking the view of what I'm trying to write. It's just a small annoyance more than anything, but it'd be helpful if there's a way to turn it off so it doesn't distract me.

What is this example trying to teach you exactly? Oh wait, nevermind, I read the comments.

Escape sequences and conversion characters. Very, very early level stuff, lol.

That's something I need to read up on still, I've only been learning stuff that helps me with games :P lol I will say though that coming from other programmers I've talked with there are notoriously bad tutorials/books out there and there doesn't really seem to be a need to learn C that much.

I recommend you get http://it-ebooks.info/book/1256/ and learn from that, I found the book really useful.

Yeah, C isn't my long-term plan for programming. I'm going to move to C++ soon; this book is mostly to get me familiar with general C functions/commands and terminology first. That book you posted is actually on my buy list for when I head to Barnes & Noble tomorrow :P

pfft just download the pdf! :P but yeah it's very good, it teaches you all the programming vocabulary and everything and I'm telling you, professional vocabulary has been the bane of my learning since I discovered it you have to stop people and actually get them to explain what certain words is otherwise they'll just carry on and assume you know it all.

I don't know what version of Code::Blocks you're using, but at least in version 13.12 you can disable code completion in: Settings -> Editor... -> Code Completion (the 9th down) -> Code Completion Tab -> Disable code-completion. Alternatively, instead of disabling everything, you can just disable the "Automatically launch when typed # letters", which is a little further down.