Your class should have provided a document with step by step install instructions.

However, you definitely do have to either install your own compiler, or download the version that includes a compiler with it. Looking at the docs and site for Code Blocks, it does appear that it should be accessible, at least to some extent. I have never programmed C++ in an IDE, but always just written it in text editors and used a commandline compiler to do the actual compilation.

Though I'm not a lawyer so that's only a speculation. If you're in the U.S., they probably have to accommodate your situation by allowing a different software, since learning Code Blocks is not the primary function of the class, but learning C++ is. The compile tools like Make or Scons also tend to be commandline based. You can do the coding in NotePadPlusPlus or the like.

So i was wondering if there was some way I could get around this codeīlocks.Often, a compiler like GCC can be used, which is commandline based. Visited that link and it was speaking of even downloading a compiler separately.

C++ codeblocks compiler