Preparation

During this workshop, we will work collaboratively using Visual Studio Code. To actively participate it is recommended to bring your computer and have the following software installed:

• Visual Studio Code

  • free and open source powerful editor

  • available for Windows, macOS and Linux

  • Download

  • further introductions on VS Code

• Please install the following extensions within Visual Studio Code

  • Live Share

  • Python

  • further instructions on how to install an extensions

To join a collaborative session within Visual Studio Code using Live Share, you need to have a GitHub (or Microsoft) account.

• You can register for a GitHub account on github.com

• See how to join a collaboration session

As we will use a collaborative session in VS Code you don’t necessarily need to have Python installed on your local machine. But, in order to work on your own machine, you can download and install Python from python.org.