https://gogs.elic.ucl.ac.be/pbarriat/learning-vscode

Pierre-Yves Barriat
ACELI Training Sessions March 26th, 2024

What is Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux.

It has a rich ecosystem of extensions for languages (such as C++, Fortran, Java, Python, etc) and runtimes (Git, Jupyter, etc)

VSC is one of the most popular and powerful text editors used by software engineers today

free, open-source and available for macOS, Windows and Linux

VS Code

You can install Visual Studio Code from the web link here

wget the deb package then dpkg -i code*.deb

That's it !

Install extensions

• Python
• Jupyter

Jupyter Notebook in VS Code

Create a new Juyter Notebook

Fill the first cell

Try to run the cell

you must choose a Python environment first (Python 3.6)

If ... maybe you must install a missing extension !

So open a terminal in VS Code an do

Now, install the missing Python extension ...

... and run the cell again: great, it's OK now

Let's try a full notebook example

Install Git : sudo apt install git -y

Now clone this Git repository

You don't already know what's Git
Shame on you !

It's not to late: take a look here
https://gogs.elic.ucl.ac.be/TECLIM/Git_Training

Now open the file example.ipynb

The first cell implies you must install some requirements

To run this example, install the extensions below

Now, try to run all the cells of this notebook

VS Code nice extensions

• Tabnine : code faster with AI code completions
• Regex Previewer : shows the current regular expression's matches
• Modern Fortran : Fortran syntax is missing in built-in version

Visual Studio Code for Ubuntu