This year we've been using QIde with the Qt framework and the mingw compiler.
In previous years we've used dev cpp with the mingw compiler. What is the framework we were using?
Is it just called the C framework, or Standard, or what?
DevC++ is only an IDE. It is nothing more than a fancy editing program. QIde is the same thing, just made to handle Qt project files. The compiler is the same throughout, that being MinGW.
Qt is a framework, just like .NET is and the Java stuff. They are not necessary to build programs but make things a lot easier. In previous years, we were making programs without a framework, only using the STL (standard template library)