1 00:00:00,410 --> 00:00:05,960 ‫So in this video, we're going to walk through how to install Visual Studio code. 2 00:00:06,470 --> 00:00:12,650 ‫And when you first install it and launch it for the first time, it's going to look something like this. 3 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:20,090 ‫But I do want to talk about a couple of options to Visual Studio code before we get into this process. 4 00:00:20,510 --> 00:00:27,140 ‫So first, if you have a coding environment that is working for you, I would recommend that you just 5 00:00:27,140 --> 00:00:28,940 ‫stay with that. 6 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:34,360 ‫There isn't anything in this course that will be Visual Studio code specific. 7 00:00:34,370 --> 00:00:38,240 ‫You just have to have an environment to write C++ code. 8 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:43,790 ‫So the second thing you might want to consider, instead of using this as your coding environment, 9 00:00:43,790 --> 00:00:51,260 ‫if you want something that is much simpler to set up, you might want to check out replicate XCOM. 10 00:00:51,290 --> 00:00:56,980 ‫So in order to use their site, you do need an account and you just come up here and you sign up. 11 00:00:56,990 --> 00:01:00,080 ‫I already have an account, so I'll just click on log in. 12 00:01:00,820 --> 00:01:03,190 ‫And then when I log in, it brings us to this page. 13 00:01:03,190 --> 00:01:08,920 ‫I'll come up here and click on Create and there will be a number of programming languages. 14 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:12,500 ‫You just scroll a little bit, click on C++. 15 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,710 ‫Click on Create Ripple. 16 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,650 ‫And it will give us this hello world. 17 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:24,620 ‫So I'll come up here and run this and you can see over here that it prints out hello world. 18 00:01:25,070 --> 00:01:29,990 ‫So this is a really easy way of having a coding environment set up. 19 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:36,260 ‫So one of the things that's nice about replicas is you're not going to have to do the full installation 20 00:01:36,260 --> 00:01:42,200 ‫of VS code with extensions and then install a compiler and then do the configuration just right out 21 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:43,280 ‫of the box. 22 00:01:43,370 --> 00:01:44,810 ‫You can do this. 23 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:46,940 ‫So those are a couple of options. 24 00:01:46,940 --> 00:01:50,300 ‫Either use what you're using now, check out replicas. 25 00:01:50,570 --> 00:01:57,860 ‫And then of course, the third option is we're going to install VS code and we'll start out by doing 26 00:01:57,860 --> 00:01:59,000 ‫a Google search. 27 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:03,680 ‫So I'm just going to do a search for download vs code. 28 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:10,970 ‫Or you could do download Visual Studio code and I'll click on this and the top hit here will say download 29 00:02:10,970 --> 00:02:14,360 ‫Visual Studio code, Mac Linux Windows. 30 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:19,280 ‫I'll click on this and it will bring you to a page that looks something like this. 31 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,640 ‫Remember, these pages do change from time to time. 32 00:02:22,850 --> 00:02:27,140 ‫So yours might look a little different than what this looks like right now. 33 00:02:27,710 --> 00:02:30,110 ‫And then you just choose your operating system. 34 00:02:30,110 --> 00:02:36,140 ‫I'm on a mac, I'll click on this and you can see that it is downloading here in the corner. 35 00:02:36,930 --> 00:02:42,030 ‫So once that's done downloading, you can either click on that or go to your downloads folder and double 36 00:02:42,030 --> 00:02:43,740 ‫click on the download. 37 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:50,010 ‫And it doesn't matter what platform you're on, you can just accept all of the defaults and finish the 38 00:02:50,010 --> 00:02:57,870 ‫install and launch vs code and when you do you'll get something like this. 39 00:02:58,410 --> 00:03:04,200 ‫So now we're going to install a couple of extensions and you get to the extensions pane by clicking 40 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:05,760 ‫on this button right here. 41 00:03:06,460 --> 00:03:07,810 ‫So I'll click on that. 42 00:03:08,350 --> 00:03:15,310 ‫And it will show the most popular extensions and most likely C++ is going to be near the top pick, 43 00:03:15,310 --> 00:03:17,740 ‫the one that is by Microsoft. 44 00:03:18,250 --> 00:03:24,550 ‫If you don't see that in your most popular list, you can come up here to where it says search extensions 45 00:03:24,550 --> 00:03:28,930 ‫in Marketplace and then just search for C++. 46 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:33,790 ‫But to install it, we just come right here and I'll click install. 47 00:03:34,430 --> 00:03:37,280 ‫And that's all there is to installing that. 48 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:41,330 ‫I'm going to come up here and shrink down this popular pain like this. 49 00:03:42,170 --> 00:03:47,000 ‫And now we're going to do a search up here for Code Runner. 50 00:03:47,750 --> 00:03:49,670 ‫And if you just type in code. 51 00:03:49,700 --> 00:03:55,220 ‫Code runner will most likely be the top choice and we'll click install on this. 52 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:00,800 ‫So I'm going to come up here and delete where it says code in the search box. 53 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,300 ‫And it will just show us our installed extensions. 54 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,330 ‫So now I'm going to click on C and C++. 55 00:04:11,540 --> 00:04:13,790 ‫And if you scroll up just a little bit here. 56 00:04:14,500 --> 00:04:20,890 ‫It'll say C C++ extension tutorials per compiler and platform. 57 00:04:21,370 --> 00:04:29,410 ‫And what these links are for are for instructions on installing a C and C++ compiler on your operating 58 00:04:29,410 --> 00:04:34,620 ‫system, because this extension that we just installed does not have a compiler in it. 59 00:04:34,630 --> 00:04:41,290 ‫We have to install that separately and installing the compiler is platform specific. 60 00:04:41,290 --> 00:04:48,850 ‫So I'll have three different videos on that, one for Windows, one for Linux and one for Mac OS. 61 00:04:49,330 --> 00:04:57,730 ‫So just go to the video that applies to you and we'll pick up right here in that video and install the 62 00:04:57,730 --> 00:04:58,450 ‫compiler.