1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:05,910 Hi, in this video, we are going to configure Visual Studio Code for working with Python because 2 00:00:05,910 --> 00:00:10,140 Visual Studio Code is an editor used for other programming languages as well. 3 00:00:10,410 --> 00:00:17,190 And not only Python but installing an extension designed for Python programming will allow us to 4 00:00:17,190 --> 00:00:19,790 make the best of Visual Studio Code. 5 00:00:19,860 --> 00:00:21,650 So that's what we are going to do in this video. 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,810 We're going to install an extension for Python programming. 7 00:00:24,810 --> 00:00:30,480 And also I'm going to show you a couple of tips on how to get started with Visual Studio Code. Now Visual 8 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,000 Studio Code and Python 9 00:00:32,010 --> 00:00:34,560 they work the same in all operating systems. 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:40,230 So it doesn't matter what operating system I'm using, because whatever I do here in Visual Studio Code 11 00:00:40,230 --> 00:00:44,630 and Python, it will work the same in your operating system. 12 00:00:44,970 --> 00:00:45,860 Right, on the screen 13 00:00:45,870 --> 00:00:50,660 I have opened Visual Studio Code and this is a fresh installation. More or less 14 00:00:50,700 --> 00:00:54,420 this is what you should see when you open Visual Studio Code for the first time. 15 00:00:54,600 --> 00:01:01,290 Now, if you have closed this welcome window, if you close it and you want to bring it back, what 16 00:01:01,290 --> 00:01:08,520 you can do is you can use one of the most used options of Visual Studio Code, which is the command palette. 17 00:01:08,790 --> 00:01:12,780 So you can go to View, Command Palette, and you'll see this symbol here. 18 00:01:13,170 --> 00:01:19,440 Here now you can search for settings for options so you can find everything about Visual Studio Code 19 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:19,820 in here. 20 00:01:19,980 --> 00:01:25,000 For example, if you type in 'welcome', you see this is highlighted. 21 00:01:25,590 --> 00:01:28,140 So if you press on that, it will show up 22 00:01:28,140 --> 00:01:30,240 the welcome page. 23 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:31,440 Here you have a couple of tips. 24 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,620 And I would like to stop in this link here. 25 00:01:33,810 --> 00:01:37,040 If you click that, it will take you 26 00:01:38,220 --> 00:01:44,700 to this page, so these are all the shortcuts, the keyboard shortcuts for Visual Studio Code. 27 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:50,130 I would suggest to bookmark this in your browser and you can visit it whenever you want to look up something, 28 00:01:50,340 --> 00:01:54,540 but you can also access that cheat sheet. 29 00:01:55,290 --> 00:01:57,310 So let me close that welcome page. 30 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:04,320 You can also access that again from View, Command Palette and type in 'shortcuts'. 31 00:02:05,300 --> 00:02:10,250 And you'll see the second result here in the list, 'Help: Keyboard Shortcuts Reference'. 32 00:02:10,250 --> 00:02:13,370 If you press that, it will take you again to the Web page. 33 00:02:15,310 --> 00:02:22,030 Right, if you want to change the theme again, you can go here and search for 'Theme' and you want to 34 00:02:22,030 --> 00:02:24,340 go to 'Preferences: Color Theme'. 35 00:02:27,300 --> 00:02:33,780 There you'll see several options, the one I would prefer would be default light, so I'm going to switch 36 00:02:33,780 --> 00:02:34,170 to that. 37 00:02:34,390 --> 00:02:38,040 You can also find the settings by going to File: Preferences 38 00:02:39,300 --> 00:02:45,930 and Settings. Note that if you are on Mac, you should go to the code menu, and then to Preferences and then 39 00:02:45,930 --> 00:02:51,270 to Settings instead of File: Preferences: Settings. And then in Settings, 40 00:02:51,270 --> 00:02:57,320 if you wanted to change that theme, you'd go to Workbench: Appearance and scroll down here and you'll 41 00:02:57,350 --> 00:03:00,140 find Colour Theme, which is now set to light. 42 00:03:00,490 --> 00:03:06,780 Now, there's a lot of options here which you can explore by your own, but for me, I'd leave them 43 00:03:06,780 --> 00:03:08,640 as they are by default. 44 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:09,880 Right. 45 00:03:10,260 --> 00:03:14,190 So those were some quick tips to get you started with Visual Studio Code. 46 00:03:14,220 --> 00:03:18,780 Now let's optimize Visual Studio Code for Python. To do that, 47 00:03:18,790 --> 00:03:21,320 you want to go to this button here. 48 00:03:23,100 --> 00:03:27,020 That is the Extensions tool. 49 00:03:27,540 --> 00:03:32,370 So here you can see what installed extensions you have for Visual Studio Code. 50 00:03:32,850 --> 00:03:36,050 It's zero in my case because it's a fresh installation. 51 00:03:36,060 --> 00:03:42,150 And then you also have Popular and then and then you also have Popular extensions in here. 52 00:03:43,670 --> 00:03:48,700 For example, Python is a very popular extension, but you can also search for extensions in here. 53 00:03:49,010 --> 00:03:49,760 So Python. 54 00:03:50,830 --> 00:03:56,620 Now, that will show you extensions in the marketplace, so we want to install the Python extension 55 00:03:56,950 --> 00:03:59,380 for that, click there and then click on Install. 56 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,470 This should take a minute. 57 00:04:03,910 --> 00:04:10,720 Now, the Python extension, what it does is it provides some syntax highlighting for Python code, 58 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:17,080 and it also allows you to easily execute Python programs and a few other features as well, which are 59 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:17,950 good to have. 60 00:04:18,430 --> 00:04:21,510 So my extension was successfully installed. 61 00:04:22,570 --> 00:04:26,120 I can close that window with that extension installed. 62 00:04:26,140 --> 00:04:31,720 We are now ready to go ahead and write and run our first Python program, in Visual Studio Code. 63 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:33,280 So let's do that in the next video. 64 00:04:33,340 --> 00:04:33,760 Thank you.