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What I want you to do now is walk me through installing VS code on my PC okay?
- Okay, okay, okay.
- Have you ever wanted to use VS code to program an Arduino board? You know it's possible. Well today I'm gonna show you how to do it with this guy who doesn't know anything about VS code or coding. Let's do this. You can learn this. All right Josh, you got a Mac right?
- I do.
- Okay, so let's go ahead and share your screen. And go ahead and open up a browser window, Google, whatever and just search for VS code. And it should pop probably one of the first things that pops up, there you go you've already been to the site. So go ahead and go to VS code. And then there's like multiple download places right? But I think the easiest one's just right there on the front, big blue button there download. It's gonna self detect or it's gonna detect which one you're on. If not, you can like specifically select your machine so you can save it to the desktop, that's fine. Should download a zip. All right. And then once it's done you can just double click that zip file and it should install it for you. Cool, extracting. Sweet. All right now you can, like you can do it however you want. Usually I'll take, you know I'll take that and I'll drag it to my applications folder. I don't know if you've got your applications folder pinned to your desktop or not, it doesn't really matter but.
- I don't.
- Okay so go ahead and double click VS code and it should open. Double clicking is hard I know it's like--
- I know. I know I'm gonna open, I'm gonna trust.
- All right trust it man.
- Trust you man.
- Trust it, it's Microsoft, what could go wrong right? All right, sweet. Yeah and just make that full screen for us if we could. Okay so you've installed VS code man, this is great, nice.
- Nice.
- Okay, so now the next thing we're gonna do 'cause we're trying to get this to work with Arduino, is there's an extension we need to install. There's actually a couple extensions that we can try to get the Arduino to work with VS code. I'm gonna use the one that Microsoft creates, makes, and manages. All right, so over on the left hand bar there's like a work bar there. I don't know what the appropriate name for that is, but at the very bottom there's a thing that looks like blocks, you know like little building blocks, that's the extensions.
- Okay.
- So go ahead and click that. And extensions are something like that you can add to the IDE to like extend it essentially. The VS code IDE.
- Okay.
- And so what you wanna do is go to, so it's already showing you for recommended like some Arduino stuff, which is cool. So go ahead up at the top there's a search bar, click the search and type in Arduino. There you go, see that top one? It's got a little blue check mark where it says Microsoft?
- Yeah.
- Now click install. It's gonna go through a little installation process here.
- Okay. That's an old logo there.
- Yeah, yeah I guess it is kind of an old logo. It's kind of a conglomeration of, yeah that's totally a old logo, you're right. All right, notice that it opened up your Arduino IDE. And that's probably something important to note, if you want VS code to work with our, you know, with your Arduino boards you also have to have the Arduino IDE installed. Now this is a little caveat that's rather I don't know, semi-technical, you there's actually a command line tool that Arduino makes that you can also use, but we won't talk about that right now.
- Okay.
- As long as you know, as you just gotta have the Arduino IDE installed to use VS code with Arduino.
- Gotcha.
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00:00 Introduction
00:28 Installing VS Code
01:25 Opening VS Code
02:54 Arduino Installation
03:55 Other Extensions
05:21 Libraries
06:36 Smoke Test
07:20 Introspective Analyses...
08:05 Simple Blink Sketch
12:28 Troubleshooting
13:02 Installing on PC (Surprise!)