Installing Visual Studio Code Editor#

Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a popular code editor that can be customized for Python development. Basically you can use any editor you like, but VSCode is supported by this project.

Follow these steps to set up VSCode for working with this project:

  1. Install Visual Studio Code

    Download and install VSCode from the official website.

  2. Install the recommended extensions

    Open VSCode and go to the Extensions view by clicking on the Extensions icon. In the text field, enter @recommended to see the list of recommended extensions for this project.

  3. Click the cloud icon next to the Workspace Recommendations header to install all recommended extensions.

    Alternatively, you can install the extensions one by one by clicking on the install button next to each extension.

    VSCode Extensions view with highlighted cloud icon