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Installing VS Code for macOS

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a popular integrated development environment (IDE) for many programming language (including Python). It is a freely available, open-source software application. Steps to install VS Code are provided below.

Installation steps

  1. Visit the VS Code homepage for the download link.

VS Code homepage which should contain a link to download the program.

  1. After downloading the installation package, open it up and drag the “Visual Studio Code” application to “Applications”.

Moving the downloaded application to the "Applications" folder in macOS.

  1. After installation, you can open Spotlight and type “code” to find VS Code.

Finding VS Code in macOS Spotlight.

  1. Return to the Getting Started with Python lesson to continue configuring your computer for Python programming.