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Installing Visual Studio (VS) Code

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Installing Visual Studio (VS) Code

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- [Instructor] Visual Studio Code can be installed directly from its website, which I have loaded here in the browser. The application is available for Mac, Windows, and yes, even Linux. In this case, I'm using the Mac version, but you should go ahead and download the version that's appropriate for your computer. Once you have the app downloaded, you'll need to run the installer for that platform. Now, I've already done that for my Mac. So to start the application, you can either double click on the app icon, or you can navigate to a folder in the terminal and type the command code followed by a period to indicate that you want to use the current folder as a project. And this is automatically set up for you when you install the app on Windows or Linux, but you need to manually enable this on the Mac. So let's open the Code app and then we're going to run the shell command to make this work. So once Code starts, type cmd + shift + p and then type the word shell in the command palette…

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