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Get started with Visual Studio Code - COBOL Tutorial
From the course: COBOL Essential Training
Get started with Visual Studio Code
- [Narrator] At this point, we now have our Linux environment set up on my Windows machine using WSL, or Windows Subsystem for Linux, and we've installed the Gnu COBOL. The last step is to download install Visual Studio Code which is what we'll use to write our COBOL programs. So let's scroll down. We can see here, and step number one is to install the subsystem for Linux, which we did. And step number two is install Visual Studio Code. So I'm going to click on the link and then I'm going to click on Download for Windows. I have a popup window that says, "do I want to run this or save this?" I'm going to go ahead and click run. I'm going to agree to the license agreement. So I'll click accept, click next. I'm going to let it default to this location, click next. I'm going to leave it as Visual Studio Code, click next and click next again and install. At this point we have the option to launch Visual Studio or just…
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Set up a COBOL environment1m 39s
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Download and install WSL2m 41s
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Get started with Visual Studio Code4m 16s
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Learn COBOL syntax2m 18s
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Code a Hello World program3m 16s
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Obtain input from the user4m 1s
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Challenge: Calculate BMI2m 42s
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Solution: Calculate BMI3m 42s
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