Getting Started with VS Code: A Beginner’s Guide 🚀

When we first get started with VS Code, it can feel a little overwhelming, so in this video I take a look at the basics, starting off with a fresh install of VS Code and I explore the very basics of opening folders vs. files, how the tabs work, and a few basic settings.

🔗 Links
✅ VS Code Extensions that I can’t live without: https://youtu.be/plEwInSiqgw
✅ VS Code Shortcuts that I use all the time: https://youtu.be/qpOlG7BYJlQ

⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:32 - Visual Studio vs. Visual Studio Code
01:30 - Opening folders
03:25 - Tabs
05:00 - Auto save
05:50 - Mutiple panes
07:20 - Font sizes and other settings
10:00 - Themes
12:40 - Emmet
14:30 - Moving the sidebar
15:40 - Get Started with VS Code Walkthrough and the interactive playground

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