Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a fast and lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications. This course shows you how to debug, refactor, peek and find references, get intellisense and autocomplete, use the multi-cursor, run task automation using Gulp or Grunt, and work in a variety of languages and platforms like node.js, ASP.Net, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
What you'll learn
Visual Studio Code is a fast and lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications. This course shows you how to debug, refactor, peek and find references, get intellisense and autocomplete, use the multi-cursor, run task automation using Gulp or Grunt, and work in a variety of languages and platforms like node.js, ASP.Net, Javascript, and TypeScript. You'll be a faster and more efficient Web developer!
Table of contents
- Code Refactorings 3m
- Bracket Matching and Emmet 2m
- Selecting and Cursors 4m
- Powerful Multi Cursors 3m
- JSON and CSS Intellisense 4m
- JavaScript Intellisense 2m
- JavaScript Intellisense with Typings 4m
- User Snippets 8m
- Sharing Snippets 1m
- Go to Definition, Find References, and Peek 2m
- References in TypeScript 5m
- Finding and Renaming Symbols 2m
- Errors and Formatting 3m
- Quick Line Movement and Editing 1m
- Refactoring Recap 1m
Course FAQ
Visual Studio Code is a code editor from Windows. It's a platform for writing code and building web and cloud applications. Like many code editors, it color codes specific syntax, provides smart code completion options, and gives debugging support.
Visual Studio Code supports hunderds of languages and platforms, including C++, C#, .NET, JavaScript, HTML, Python, and Ruby. This gives developers a comprehensive environment for a quick "code, build, debug" cycle.
This course will teach you how to be a faster and more efficient developer through VS Code. Some topics covered include:
- Downloading and installing Visual Studio Code
- Command line options
- VS Code layout
- Using Node and ASP.NET
- Code refactorings
- JavaScript Intellisense
- Themes, preferences, and keyboard shortcuts
- Language features in Code
- Code integration with version control and Git
- Debugging workflow
- Integrating VSCode with external tools
This Visual Studio Code course is perfect for anyone who wants to learn a fast and lightweight cross platform code editor for writing applications. If you are a developer and want to write code more efficiently, then this course is for you.
Nope! There are no strict prerequisites to this VS Code tutorial. We begin by showing how to even download and install the code editor, so it assumes no prior experience with it. Experience with coding in general would make sense to have prior to trying to work in a code editor, but even still, it's not required.
About the author
John Papa is a dedicated father and husband, a professional Web Developer, and professional storyteller in the technology community. He currently is a Partner GM for Microsoft leading the Growth Ecosystems Cloud Advocacy teams and has formerly worked for Disney on several web and mobile applications ans systems that you may have used. His passions are coding and teaching modern web technologies, running, and enjoying everything Disney with his family. John is a co-host of the Web Rush podcast... more