sudo aptitude install build-essential

What does it do? It actually install all c/c++ compiler which are necessary to compile source. You can give try.

Suppose you have create helloword.c file. Just do this

cc -c helloworld.c
cc -o helloword helloworld.c
./helloworld

Instead, if you have helloworld.cpp (C++ code)

g++ helloworld.cpp -o helloworld
./helloworld

Happy programming!!