Visual Studio Code Python for Beginners: Hello World & Beyond

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I show you not just Python VS Code hello world. Oh no, let's make functions, write to files, loops and more.

This is Visual Studio Code Beginner Tutorial Video showing how Visual Studio Code is an open platform development platform that combines the simplicity of a source code editor with powerful developer tooling, like IntelliSense code completion and debugging.

I show you how to install Visual Studio Code using C# for beginners. In this tutorial, I walk you through everything. How to download, install even debug a 'Hello World' C# console application. From there you will be able to do anything your imagination desires.

We will be needing the .Net Core Framework so let's install that also. This tutorial will show you how. We are going to install Visual Studio Code and the .Net Core Framework SDK that it requires. I will show you everything in this how-to tutorial.

It is an editor that gets out of your way. The edit-build-debug cycle means less time fiddling with your environment, and more time executing on your ideas.

Available for macOS, Linux, and Windows
Visual Studio Code supports macOS, Linux, and Windows - so you can hit the ground running, no matter the platform.

Edit, build, and debug with ease with VS Code
At its heart, VS Code features a lightning fast source code editor, perfect for day-to-day use. With support for hundreds of languages, VS Code helps you be instantly productive with syntax highlighting, bracket-matching, auto-indentation, box-selection, snippets, and more. Intuitive keyboard shortcuts, easy customization and community-contributed keyboard shortcut mappings let you navigate your code with ease.

For serious coding, you'll often benefit from tools with more code understanding than just blocks of text. Visual Studio Code includes built-in support for IntelliSense code completion, rich semantic code understanding and navigation, and code refactoring.

And when the coding gets tough, the tough get debugging. Debugging is often the one feature that developers miss most in a leaner coding experience, so we made it happen. Visual Studio Code includes an interactive debugger, so you can step through source code, inspect variables, view call stacks, and execute commands in the console.

Visual Studio Code also integrates with build and scripting tools to perform common tasks making everyday workflows faster. VS Code has support for Git so you can work with source control without leaving the editor including viewing pending changes diffs.

Make it your own
Customize every feature to your desire, install any number of third-party extensions.

While most scenarios work out of box with no configuration, Visual Studio Code also grows with you, and we encourage you to optimize your experience to suit your unique needs. Visual Studio Code is an open source project so you can also contribute to the growing and vibrant community on GitHub.

[RealToughCandy]

...First!

Great video. Python rocks. 🐍

[paulmcwhorter]

Incredibly useful video. You have no idea how hard it is to find instruction like this that shows you how to get started. Really helped me out a lot. You have the gift of teaching sir! God bless.

[_marlon]

That was awesome! I'm an iOS developer who writes in Swift and I'm about to jump into the Computer Science portion of school and this video is a great ice breaker. I'm already enjoying the heck out of Python!

[JabeurAlimi]

here's the thing, I just learned in this video more than i did in my whole python course lmao. Not really but it was concise and clear :D thanks :D

[tobaobiwale]

I am familiar with php but starting a Python course lately and connecting to git gives me a lot of headaches, Now I get it done, your video is very educating with each step you took, Thank you!

[chimadivine]

Thanks so much for this video, especially the set-up section. Using VScode has saved me from being stuck with Atom editor...thanks again

[ghtegnerlitt]

Thank you for your video, it helped me getting started with Python! :)

[peters]

Very cool. It is really neat to see how a pro can quickly grasp a new language. Thank you for demonstrating your process.

[didoma]

You can also press F5 to run/debug your Python code in VS code 😊

[kamranhusain]

I was unable to find my settings.json file in the visual studio editor. There was no PYCLASS drop down. So, I looked in %APPDATA%Roaming\Code\User and found the contents there. You refer to the location at about 1:48

[lauracoutinho]

to run a code shortcut, go to View, command pallette: python interactive window. Then when you enter your code, type control + enter to run. Assuming no errors, it will run your code

[nvaader]

Good video, was looking for something to get me going on python. Glad I found this.

[issaiahburch]

The extension doesn't show up in the workspace for me and I still can't seem to get this to work. I can't get the set up to work because I have no idea how to troubleshoot the path not showing up.

[Nova-jtgw]

You can use f5 to run the program 😁 I find it easier, it might not work for some idk 😕

[DarkOceanShark]

Amazing video! Thanks for helping me out, love from India 🇮🇳.

[noweare]

Coming from a C background python seems very interesting esp. all the libraries are part of the language. Although I have a hard time not using brackets and semi colons

[jacquelinewalker-]

I install everything and, this one guy he screw me up. So I'll follow you

[raysah]

How do you remove the file path and version that appears each run you run the script on the terminal, i only want to see the output of my script and nothing else

For example,

Instead of seeing this output each time
PS & "c:/Users/username/test.py"


I only want to see the output of the actual script and nothing else, similar to PyCharm

[itsschoie]

for when you do for x in range etc
you must put in spaces before the 2 prints or else it wont work, just a tip

[MrBubbagump]

Thank you, sir. You got me at least started with Python using VS Code. I was spinning my wheels for quite a while. I think I was missing the environment thing. Now, I got to figure out, how to show all of the libraries after I type import or from on a line.