Beginners Coding: VS Code
VS Code Interface Overview
Go to the Welcome Tab and click "Interface Overview" under the section entitled, "Learn." This will overlay the parts of the interface overlaid on top for a quick refresher on what each icon means.
VS Code's Interactive Editor Playground
Here you can find all of VS Code's useful editing features, like multi-curser editing, and you can try it out on the playground to see how things work.
VS Code - Customize: Tools and Languages
Here you can install the extensions for the programming languages you want to use. Extensions provide extra support for coding through services like autocomplete, quick fixes, and formatting. But they don't always come with compilers, which turn your code into code your computer can execute and run. More info can be found on code.visualstudio.com in their video entitled "Extensions for Visual Studio Code."
VS Code Interface - Activity Bar: Extensions View
Manage and download extensions
VS Code Interface - Activity Bar: Run View
Run and debug code here
VS Code Interface - Activity Bar: Search
Search through your files
VS Code - Customize: Settings and keybindings
Click on this section to find different keymap extensions that will provide you keyboard short cuts within VS Code. To see the shortcuts all in one place, open the command pallet and click "open keyboard shortcuts" or print them off under the help section on the welcome page.
VS Code Interface - Activity Bar: Source Control
Track changes and see different versions of your code files
VS Code Interface - Command Palette
VS Code Toolbar --> View --> Command Palette This is the control center for all of the actions in VS Code. Every action is mapped to a command in the command palette.
VS Code Interface - Activity Bar: File Explorer
Your current files and folders