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Instructor: Welcome to this bonus section for the course.
In this section of the course, I'll go through
the steps needed to use Microsoft Visual Studio Code,
or VS Code for short,
with C++ and with the projects used in this course.
VS Code has become a very popular IDE
over the past few years.
It's a Microsoft product that's free, built on open source,
it's cross platform and supports Windows, Mac OS X,
and Linux, and it's also cross language.
It supports C++, Java, Python, JavaScript,
and many, many other programming languages.
It's fast, it's small, and it's very powerful.
It's also very extensible
via extensions that we can install and customize.
So is it easy to use?
Yes and no.
It's easy to use once you set it up okay,
and that's the purpose of this section,
to walk you through the setup for C++,
you'll see a lot of different ways
to set up Visual Studio Code out on the internet.
Some of them are okay, some of them are not okay.
Some of them use a lot of extensions unnecessarily.
I'm gonna keep it as bare bones as I can
so that we can get up and running
with C++ and VS Code pretty quickly.
So what we'll do in this section is we'll go through
the procedure needed to install
and configure VS Code so that it works with C++.
We'll then set up a folder structure
so that we can organize our projects
and let us easily work with multiple projects.
Then I'll show you how to build, run,
and debug your own C++ programs,
as well as the projects provided with the source code
for this course, all in Visual Studio Code.
Now this section contains videos
for Windows, macOS 10, and Linux.
You'll most likely just watch the videos that pertain
to your specific operating system,
but feel free to watch them all if you like.
Okay, so let's get started.
First up, let's get started with Microsoft Windows.