Visual Studio Code Tutorial: Set Up, Shortcuts, and Top Features

In this Visual Studio Code tutorial, AI specialist and Udacity mentor Mayur Madnani shares his top 10 tips to enhance your VS Code productivity. Learn how to set up VS Code for maximum productivity, explore essential keyboard shortcuts, and introduce the best extensions to optimize your development workflow. Whether you're just starting out or looking to enhance your coding environment, this guide has something for everyone. 🚀

What You’ll Learn in This Video:
- Font Ligatures: How enabling font ligatures can improve the readability and look of your code. 🖋️
- Auto Formatting: Save time by using the auto-formatting feature to tidy up your code instantly.
- Multiple Cursors: Edit multiple lines of code simultaneously with the powerful built-in multiple cursors feature.
- Top VS Code Extensions:
- Rainbow CSV: Make CSV files more readable with color-coded highlights.
- Live Preview: View HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files in real-time.
- httpyac REST Client: Test APIs directly within VS Code.
- Bookmarks: Quickly navigate through important sections of your code.
- VS Code PDF: Open and view PDFs inside VS Code.
- Markdown Preview Mermaid: Create and preview diagrams directly in your editor.
- Excalidraw: Use a whiteboard-style drawing tool for visual planning and brainstorming. ✏️
- Code Runner: Run code snippets from various programming languages quickly and easily.
- And the most common questions about VS Code.

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About Mayur Madnani:

Engineer | AI Specialist | Udacity Course Author | Researcher & Patent Holder

Mayur is an accomplished engineer with deep expertise in software, data, and AI. He has held key roles at SAP, Walmart, Intuit, and JioHotstar, contributing to innovative projects and cutting-edge solutions. Mayur holds an MS in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK.

A published researcher and patent holder, Mayur is also the author of Udacity’s "Building Image and Vision Generative AI Solutions on Azure" course. Since 2020, he has been an active mentor at Udacity, completing over 2,100 project reviews across multiple Nanodegree programs.

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Video Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
0:23 - Font Ligatures in VS Code
0:46 - Editor Auto Formatting
1:00 - Multiple Cursors Feature
1:30 - Rainbow CSV Extension
2:00 - Live Preview Extension
2:21 - httpyac REST Client Extension
2:43 - Bookmarks Extension
3:10 - VS Code PDF Extension
3:30 - Markdown Preview Mermaid Support
3:45 - Xcalibraw Extension (Whiteboard Tool)
4:30 - Code Runner Extension
4:45 - Common Questions About VS Code