Introduction

Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, is a source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded Git. Although VS Code isn't technically an IDE (integrated development environment) since it doesn't come with prebuilt compilers, using open-source VS Code "extensions" and integrating with your computer, it can virtually act like one!

Installing VS Code

Visual Code Studio can be downloaded from their website by navigating to https://code.visualstudio.com. Here, the installer for your machine will be suggested for download. The software will either be downloaded as the application itself zipped, or as an installer. Follow the prompts from the install, or move the application to your applications folder on Mac OS X, and you now have VS Code installed!