Our code editor of choice in this course is Microsoft's Visual Studio Code.
This is an open source cross-platform code editor built with Javascript.
Don't confuse this with Microsoft's other product Visual Studio which is designed
to only program for the Windows platform. Visual Studio Code (or VSCode) is a
multi-language editor that can handle almost any programming language for any
platform.
Go to website for Visual Studio Code, then download and install VS Code.
You'll want to make sure you download the Stable release.
Download the DMG (Disk Image) file for VSCode and open it up. This will mount as virtual 'disk' on your desktop. Drag the VSCode icon to your Applications folder and then eject the virtual disk on the Desktop by dragging it to the Trash.
In macOS the command line utility code isn't instaled by default when you install
VSCode.
Open the VS Code editor, open the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P) and type
type shell command to find the Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH
command.
This will now allow you to easily open files in VS Code from the terminal using
the code command followed by a file or directory.
In Windows we will be using VSCode alongside WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
In order to do this, we must make sure we install this VSCode extension:
Once you've installed this you can open VSCode and connect to your WSL instance.
Make sure you read this tutorial from Microsoft on how to use WSL and VSCode together:
To install VSCode in Ubuntu Linux, download the 64-bit .deb file to your Downloads folder, the open that folder in your File Manager and double click on it to install it.