Setting up VS Code for Python Beginners 🐍

Python in VS Code is great for learning programming, cloud development, data science, … anything really. With the Python extension set up you get smart autocompletion, linting, debugging, jupyter notebooks, and a lot more. Let's get you set up!

0:00 So, we gonna do some Python today
0:53 Quick tour of VS Code for first-time users
3:06 Install Python extension for VS Code
4:09 Python extension settings
8:08 Selecting a Python interpreter
8:37 Writing and running Python code
10:29 Creating a virtual environment
14:35 IntelliSense for Python
17:34 Python notebooks with Jupyter
20:37 Q&A
29:09 Closing remarks

[raykall]

I missed this earlier! I'm so happy this is available on demand! thanks

[profgallaugher]

Love this! Thanks, April. Could you or Burke do a video on VS Code and CircuitPython, either for microcontrollers and/or the Raspberry Pi? Would love to get my students using VS code instead of Mu or Thonny. Thanks!

[TranSan]

Love this. I have a problem with the run code button, when I run my code with the run code button, it failed with error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pandas', but the code works fine in the terminal. How to fix this problem?

[TristanPetrie]

I followed your exact steps but when I ran the emoji demo in the virtual environment nothing showed up. Im not getting any errors in the problems tab, its just not printing anything in the terminal. Any suggestions?

[tytytyty]

VS code can be used for Python and C++ right? is it possible to set it up for both and be able to switch whenever I want?

[jacobcurry]

11:41 when I do this code in the terminal, it does not do what yours does :( It opens up a window that says "How would you like to open this file?" and gives me options like Notepad, Adobe acrobat, VSCode, etc. What's happening??

[dreamypujara]

am unable to create a virtual environment...Python was not found; run without arguments to install from the Microsoft Store, or disable this shortcut from Settings > Manage App Execution Aliases. getting this error

[horreb]

Hello for some reason I cannot activate my virtual environment. I dont get any error messages or anything in the terminal. Could you please explain how to solve it ? :)

[Bigcargo]

How to setup visual code python on Mac with the interpreter are you using?

[roshanpoudel]

Is the VScode app on Microsoft store bugged, I heard they don't have options when you right-click(open with ) and aren't updated through Microsoft store . Pls I need to know, I have immense OCD.

[alivecoding]

How can I scroll two parallel files in sync?

[nomurasan]

Please release on android because I like programming and looking for applications for programming is difficult for the android version

[sergiorome]

my vs studio says master and it keeps talking about create a new branch, idk wtf that means, no where does it mention interpreter

[learningstuff]

Which Python Interpreter are we meant to select? You got us to the option and continued to waffle on and then ignore what you set out to It's so frustrating watching a tutorial which then requires another tutorial or Google search because the teacher mentions something but does not demonstrate it!

[dreamypujara]

am not getting display of python interpreter in the bottom left corner even after selecting it

[dimitris]

Why do we need to create virtual environments?

[sergiorome]

bro I literally just want to code does anyone have a tutorial that's 10 mins long...