By Andy Brown

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The biggest obstacle to learning Python isn't the language itself - it's getting a development environment set up. This video shows you how to install and customise Visual Studio Code (our preferred development environment for Python), laying the foundations for you to write awesome programs in subsequent tutorials in this series.

Chapters
00:00 Topic list
01:27 Installing Visual Studio Code
02:58 Choosing a theme
04:11 Installing Python
06:13 The terminal window
08:12 File programs
10:45 The Code Runner extension
12:43 How to change your settings
19:14 Some suggested settings
21:56 5 tips for Visual Studio Code

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