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(logo whooshing)

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(logo clicking)

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Frank: Hello, everyone.

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In this video, we're going to download,

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and install Visual Studio Code on Windows,

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and we're also going to set up the C++ extension for it.

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Now, before you execute anything in this video,

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please be sure that the MinGW 64 C++ Compiler

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has already been installed and configured on your system.

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That's very important that that's done already

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before we install Visual Studio Code.

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If you haven't done that, please go to section two,

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and refer to the instructions for installing MinGW 64,

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the C++ compiler on Windows.

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Okay, so moving forward, I'm assuming that that's done.

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What we want to do is open up your favorite browser,

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and head over to code.visualstudio.com.

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You can also search for Visual Studio Code

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in Google and it'll take you there.

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You're gonna get a page that looks similar to this,

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and you can see that there's this big blue button

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right here looking right at us saying,

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"Download for Windows."

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So it's already detected that I'm running Windows,

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and there's also a download button

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over here that gives you some more options

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in case you've got a 32 bit version of Windows.

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So I've got a regular 64 bit version of Windows,

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which is what most people have.

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And what I'm going to do is I'm just

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gonna click this button, Download for Windows,

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and that'll start my download.

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It'll take you to this Getting Started page.

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And you can see here that the file

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is going to be saved when I click Save File.

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(mouse button clicks)

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And once that installer is saved,

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that's what I want to execute.

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So I'm gonna come up here to my browser,

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and grab that download, which is right here,

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and I'm just gonna double-click on it

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to install it.

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Now, once the install begins, right here,

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I'm just gonna get rid of this browser.

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I don't need it anymore and I really don't want it

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to clutter up my screen.

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So here's the license agreement.

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You can look through that,

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and accept the agreement and then select Next,

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select the path you want to install it to.

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I'm just gonna use the defaults.

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I'll select Next.

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Next again.

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(mouse button clicks)

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And now it says, "Select Additional Tasks."

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The only thing that I set on here

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is that last checkbox right here,

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"Add to the path."

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If you want to create an icon on your desktop

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for Visual Studio Code, then select this first option.

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I'll select Next and then Install.

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(mouse button clicks)

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The install will progress pretty quickly,

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this is a fairly small application,

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and it's a very fast application as well.

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So once it's finished,

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what we'll do is we'll launch Visual Studio Code.

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That's what I'm going to do right now.

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You can see that that checkbox is checked,

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and I'm gonna select Finish,

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and that'll bring up Visual Studio Code.

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And I'm just gonna make this full screen.

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(mouse button clicks)

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We can just get rid of some of these messages.

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And this is the screen that you're gonna get the first time

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that you install Visual Studio Code.

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It's just a getting started screen and it's kind of small,

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so I'm just gonna enlarge this font,

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I'm just gonna hit Ctrl+,

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just to make it a little bit nicer on video,

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so you all can see it a little bit better.

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So this just gives you some information.

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You wanna pick a theme and I'll just pick

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this same dark theme.

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You can look at the different languages

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that it supports and so forth.

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So there's a lot of information in here.

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I'm going to close that.

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And now, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go

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to this icon right over here at the left,

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down at the bottom, Extensions,

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and I'm gonna select that.

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(mouse button clicks)

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And what I want to do is I wanna install

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the C/C++ extension.

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And you can see it right here.

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Notice that I have zero extensions installed,

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because I just installed Visual Studio Code

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as a fresh install.

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So in this case,

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this is the extension that I want to install.

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It's here under Popular.

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If that does not show up under here,

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you can always search for the extension up here,

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just type C++ and you'll see it right there.

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So this is the one we wanna select.

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You'll know it's the one because you've got

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this circle here with some purple, white, and black,

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and it says C/C++, Microsoft.

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And it's got about 20 million downloads

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at the time of this video.

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And what we wanna do here is just select Install.

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(mouse button clicks)

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You'll see down here at the bottom,

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some messages of installation messages.

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At this point we're done,

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we've installed Visual Studio Code,

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and the C++ extension.

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So what I want to do now is just close this up,

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and go right over here to my explorer,

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and we are good to go now.

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So in the next video,

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what we'll do is we'll create a folder that will store some

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of our C++ projects.

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We'll create a small C++ program,

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and we'll run that and I'll show you how

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to configure Visual Studio Code to build,

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and run that project.

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So I'll see you in the next video.