April topic: VSCode
Visual Studio Code is a free, cross-platform, open-source, multi-language IDE (Integrated Development Environment) with a clean interface, a powerful feature set, and an enormous ecosystem of available plugins. No matter how much you know about it currently, there’s still a huge variety of capabilities you’re not familiar with.
Jim Carr will present on VSCode and its support for dynamic languages specifically.
Agenda:
- VS Code installation.
- Using Profiles to manage IDE configurations.
- Code snippets: built-in and custom.
- Code Runner extension.
- Language-specific: Python (including Jupyter, virtual environments, Django, and Flask), JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and Perl. What’s built in, and what you can add with extensions. Features: intellisense, code navigation, syntax highlighting, formatting, linting, refactoring, and debugging.
Location: Innovation Hub
We’ve begun to meet in the Innovation Hub,
a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex.
Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.
Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.
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if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve been exposed to COVID, or you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!
Join us at 7 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.