Article: How to get the most out of your Visual Studio Code (VS)? Tips and tricks

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Article: How to get the most out of your Visual Studio Code (VS)? Tips and tricks #1061

Open Lisa-Holling opened 9 months ago

Lisa-Holling commented 9 months ago

I want to write an article that explains the basics of Visual Studio Code. Some possible topics to include are:

What is Visual Studio Code?
Running python / R code
Git integration with VS
Terminal Usage
Visual tools (indent-rainbow, vibrancy continued, vscode-icons)
Customizing the User Interface (themes, layout, zen mode tip)
Keyboard Shortcuts
Debugging (breakpoints, debug console)
Working with Jupyter Notebooks (extension)

Target group: mainly students/researchers who have some basic knowledge of VS, but want to use it more effectively

(similar to issue #1060 but then for VS)

alexandervossen commented 8 months ago

Good idea @Lisa-Holling! One thing that I feel is often overlooked is the "visual" part in VSCode. Maybe you also find room to highlight a few of the great visual tools, such as indent-rainbow, vibrancy continued, vscode-icons, etc.

Lisa-Holling commented 3 months ago

@alexandervossen I am starting to work on this now, but was wondering where on the website would be an appropriate spot for this? Maybe somewhere around "Research Skills"? There's also going to be a similar article for Rstudio on this topic.

alexandervossen commented 3 months ago

great @Lisa-Holling ! I would maybe suggest under computer setup / software installation. We already have a RStudio Coding Sytle Guidelines block there so maybe the style guide fits there as well. A nice synergy could be styling VSCode and combine with the new block on Positron that @valerievossen and @VirginiaMirabile are doing over here #1220 . Posit (the developers of Positron) claim that almost all plugins for VSCode work also for Positron. I am using it since two weeks now and I truely believe that it will replace RStudio in the not so long run.

valerievossen commented 3 months ago

It could also be nice in the IDE section of Computer set up (https://tilburgsciencehub.com/topics/computer-setup/software-installation/ide/#ides-ezo)? I cleaned up this section in a recent PR (still needs to be merged). Was thinking of adding the Positron article in there as well. What do you think @Lisa-Holling @alexandervossen ?

There is a "R & RStudio" section in Computer Set up for the similar article for RStudio as well @Lisa-Holling