This article is for novice users, mainly talking about the download and installation of VScode and the basic use of four top plug-ins (namely python, c/c++, java and GitHub copy).
Although there will be basic configuration prompts after the plug-in is installed, there are still tricks. I believe that those who read this article should not read the document every day. Take C++ as an example. If you configure it according to the prompts of the welcome page, I believe you will definitely download the VS Toolbox 2. This thing is not elegant at all. You need to enable code on the command line of the vs tool. The programmer focuses on an elegant one. How can you do such an inelegant thing? Isn't it good to run like visual studio? So I wrote this article
1. Download and install Visual Studio Code
To use Visual Studio Code, you need Visual Studio Code first
Search for Microsoft's official website in your browser, open it and enter, at the bottom of the web page, find the developer and IT, and click on Visual Studio in it
Click on it and gently slide down and you will see Visual Studio Code. Choose to download the Windows version
(This is the link: /zh-hans/)
After the download is completed, it is installed. Double-click to install the program
Agree to the agreement, you can select the default installation location or customize the location. Next, Next, please check all options. Next, complete
Basic configuration of Studio Code
Open Visual Studio Code
Click on the extension (Ctrl+Shift+x), search for Chinese in the extension, and select Simplified installation
Follow the welcome interface prompts and configure the Visual Studio Code interface by yourself.
Studio Code vs. python
Download python in Microsoft Store (or go to anaconda official website:/download/success, download conda, believe me, this is more worthy of recommendation)
Open Visual Studio Code
Click on expansion (Ctrl+Shift+x), search for python in expansion, and select Microsoft certified
Wait for the plugin to be installed and closed
Now create a new folder to store our python code
Open the folder used to store our python code, Shift+right mouse button (Note: If you do not check those options when installing Visual Studio Code, it is not opened through Code. If not, you can select files in Visual Studio Code and select open by opening the folder)
Select the new text file to select the language (or the new file suffix is .py), enter the following code:
print('hello')
Select Run (for debugging, it stops if the program has a breakpoint) to see if the terminal displays
Studio Code and C++
Download terminal MSYS2, download address: /msys2/msys2-installer/releases/download/2024-12-08/msys2-x86_64
download
After the download is completed, run (recommended to place it in the C drive, do not include the Chinese path). This will open the MSYS2 terminal window by default.
Run the command in the terminal: pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain
The terminal will output all toolkits, press Enter to download them all, prompt whether to continue, enter y
Then add the path of the MinGW-w64 folder to the Windows environment variable (if you use the default, the added variable is C:\msys64\ucrt64\bin), OK, OK
Open a new command line window and use the three commands of gcc --version g++ --version gdb --version to verify which versions of GCC, g++ and GDB are installed
Open code, click on expansion (Ctrl+Shift+x), search for c++ in expansion, and select Microsoft certified
Select a folder, create a file (ends with .cpp), enter the following code and save:
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
vector<string> msg {"Hello", "C++", "World", "from", "VS Code", "and the C++ extension!"};
for (const string& word : msg)
{
cout << word << " ";
}
cout << endl;
}
Click Run in the upper right corner and select Run C++. The system will automatically detect the compiler and select g++.exe build and debug active file (the system will only ask you to select a compiler when it is first run. This compiler will be set to the "default" compiler in the file.)
Run output results
Studio Code and java
(For Java, I personally recommend IDEA)
Open vs code
Click on expansion (Ctrl+Shift+x), search for java in expansion, and select Microsoft certified
Wait for the plugin to be installed and closed
Please make sure you have the java development kit (JDK) installed in the local environment. If you do not have it installed, you can download and install it at:/java/technologies/downloads/
Now create a file ending with .java (VS code will automatically find the correct package. If the java file cannot be opened, the Java server may not work properly)
Write the following code:
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
("Hello, World!");
}
}
Just run to see if the output is normal
Studio Code vs. GitHub Copilot
(Who can reject an AI that helps write code)
GitHub Copilot is the official standard code assistant
In the new VS code version, it is added by default (if not, you can search for GitHub Copilot, which is the GitHub certified one)
It has a free credit limit and no network restrictions. Just log in with a GitHub account
For this article, it only introduces the basic configuration, and the VScode built is a level that can be used. For Python, it also has virtual environment configuration, c/c++ changing standards for c, java configuration projects, etc. (I will make up for all these if I have time in the future). However, the purpose of this article is to teach novice novice to build one available VScode one by one. If this article helps you, then it is useful.