VSCode
10 October 2020
Coding is much more user friendly with VSCode!!
Now I’ve finished the Generation course and passed my AWS exam, I have no deadlines or anything specific that I have to do for a set time and, as I’m still pretty new to coding and am just trying to climb out of the lower levels, I figured now would be a great time to get familiar with an IDE. I figured it would just make my progression through the next stages that bit easier and I’ve got to say, even after just going through the introductory interactive playground and writing this (the first thing I’ve done in VSCode), that I can see it being a huge help and stopping me making many small mistakes that would waste a lot of my time and energy trying to pick out myself in the regular terminal.
Other than the help with coding, it’s just a much nicer environment to look at and is integrated with point and click functionality, tabs, windows, search bars and many other of the user experience based features that we’re all used by now. I recently started using tmux in the terminal and my main use of that was to enable multiple tabs but even with just having 2 or 3 open I still manage to get lost in them somehow, so I definitely am a big fan of the integrated environment here!
I chose Visual Studio Code simply because I’ve heard a few good things, a number of the coding videos I have seen have been done using it and I haven’t really heard much about any others but I am really enjoying it so far; my next project is building some form of game with the Pygame module and it is going to be a whole lot easier with the range of extensions (a couple of which I’ve already installed), as well as the standard VSCode benefits!
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