From the course: Visual Studio Code for Python Developers
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A tour of the user interface
From the course: Visual Studio Code for Python Developers
A tour of the user interface
- [Instructor] Okay, let's get started by taking a quick tour of the user interface. So once you have VSCode installed, open the app and you should see a welcome screen that look similar to this one. So I'm going to open up a folder and it's going to be in my exercise files folder. So I'm going to open a folder in VSCode and this is going to create a workspace for me. And a workspace is basically just a collection of related files. In this case, the exercise files. On the left hand side of the app, you'll see this vertical list of icons. This is called the view bar. The view bar lets you switch between views and gives you additional context specific in the gears, like how many of the installed extensions need to be updated or how many of the open editors have been modified. So the top icon switches to the explorer view and you can see that if I click on it more than once I collapse the little panels on the side here. This view displays the files and folders for the current project…
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