Lacking a nice IDE, one does not have to despair. There were hundreds of thousands of lines of code developed before there were ANY IDEs. These development people, however, had to have some method to control their source code when in the edit-compile-debug cycle. One of the easiest of these methods was the use of Makefiles. A Makefile simply contains the rules to follow when a program make rebuilds your run image.
Here is the Makefile for the puzzle1.c enrichment program supplied on the lecture one page. These slides describe the individual lines in the Makefile.