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Installing Visual Studio Code on a Mac

Installing Visual Studio Code on a Mac - Python Tutorial

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Installing Visual Studio Code on a Mac

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- We'll be using Visual Studio Code, or VS Code for short, as our IDE for this course. VS Code is a great cross-platform editor, as it's fast, easy to customize, and has a friendly user interface. To get started, we'll open up the VS Code webpage. I'll be showing you the setup for the Mac operating system in this video. If you're using a Windows machine, please skip to the next video. So the first thing we're going to do is come to code.visualstudio.com. And then we're going to choose the Download for Mac button. Once it's finished downloading, we can double click the zip file to open it up. And in order to use Visual Studio Code, we're going to copy our file over to the applications folder. Now we can go ahead and open up Visual Studio Code. Let's close down the browser. The first thing you see when you come to Visual Studio Code is the welcome screen. From here, you can create a new file, open up a folder, or…

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