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CalcIt is a small, compact, versatile and freeware programming tool to be used by power computer users and programmers to process quickly and conveniently numeric, alphanumeric data and text files. Its user interface resembles the very well known concept in modern programming of an IDE (Integrated Development environment). In this environment you can write code and store it or organize it as you wish in a hierarchical list. CalcIt offers many ways to organize your code. So having an organized "palette" of codes you write, you can pick one of them at any time and execute it. Anything you choose to display will appear in appropriate CalcIt windows.
Out there there are allot of powerful (and very expensive) IDEs. One of them is Delphi which I used to develop this program. So why we need CalcIt? Of course not to replace Delphi or any other tool of this magnitude. With CalcIt we do not create "big applications" but mostly we write and maintain pieces of code we need to execute independently here and there. CalcIt is an auxiliary programming tool to do fast and easily "small thing" that with the "big tools" need much more effort, debugging and knowledge to achieve the same result. These "small things" that frequently meet every day in our work probably will do by hand in a tedious and boring process or resolve them again and again every time they reappear because we don't remember where and how exactly we solve them before (If I ever tried to solve them programmatically). When a more important job needs our focus, to setup small applications in a hurry and later debug them again and again, is out of our scope and a distraction. There is a danger to end up doing something else than the one we started. So we need an organizational coding tool to create "small things" fast, with a feeling of confidence the first time we meet a need and later just maintaining the code or just pick a code for immediate execution. We need also to keep the codes we create in one place where it is easy to search and find them. So CalcIt can be seen as a "Utilities Generator" with a storage capability that help the user to maintain and use his/her utilities.
Additionally many times we need to test ideas, algorithms or smaller things that later will incorporate in bigger applications. We need an environment to write them fast, execute them and check their results. If we have a convenient environment to do that then, maybe, we will become more willing to sit down and give them a chance. CalcIt also comes in help of such situations.
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