What's nice about VS Code is that for each extension, you have a detail screen which tells you about the different features that are included.

If we click on the Python extension, we're going to get lots of details about how Python works in Visual Studio Code. This is going to open up the extension pane on the left side, and one of the options is Python. The next thing we want to do to get this ready to work with Python is to go to the customize pane and choose tools and languages.

Let's escape it by just clicking on the overlay. The key things that you'll want to work with for this course are the file explorer where you can see all of the files listed, searching across files in case you need to find one with a specific name, managing extensions, which we're going to talk about shortly, and then also finding and running all commands. We can do that by coming to the learn pane and choosing interface overview.

For now, let's take a quick look at some of the features of this IDE. From here, we can create a new file, open a folder, or add a workspace folder. Now that the app is launched, we're greeted with the welcome screen. Let's go ahead and launch Visual Studio Code. Let's click next again, and then finally, install. We'll keep everything the same for the defaults, and when it comes to selecting the additional task, I recommend you choose every option, as this will make it easier for you to work with the exercise files. We'll click next again, choose the default location for installation.

First, we're going to click on next and make sure you accept the agreement. Now that we've launched the installation flow, let me go ahead and close this browser Window and then we'll walk through the flow. Once it's downloaded, let's click on the executable in order to launch the installation flow. Once you're here, you want to choose download for Windows. To get started, we'll open up the VS Code webpage.

Installing visual studio code