VS Code Configuration For Competitive Programmers or Problem Solvers In Windows Machine

This video tutorial is basically a visual studio code configuration to take input and output from files and makes competitive programming or problem solving easy in windows. It can be also called the successor video of my previous tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYO3aCP1Gmk&t=4s&ab_channel=TheCoderKaku) for Linux machines.

In this tutorial you will learn not only the configuration of VS Codefor C/C++ programming, but also some very basic yet most important concepts of how IDE works under the hood when we hit the run button.

I have a repository in github named "VS-Code-Config" : https://github.com/jspw/VS-Code-Config . All necessary configuration are there for vscode. The repository has already 100+ stars and about 50 forks. If you like it hit a star and find some bugs or need some improvements please create a issue there. Any types of contribution is appreciated here.

Timecodes

00:00 - Intro
01:35 - Windows in a Virtual Machine
02:16- Why VS Code Configuration instead of an IDE like Codeblocks
03:13 - Under the Hood of Traditional IDEs
04:23 - Pre-requirements
05:24 - Install MinGW or use portable MinGW zip file
07:15 - Install VS Code
07:48 - Setup System Environment Variable for Windows
11:48 - Create workspace in vscode
12:45 - Setup "CMD" as default terminal instead of "powershell or git bash"
13:37 - Compile & Run a C/C++ program from terminal/cmd using commands in vscode
14:28 - Create input & output file and split screens
15:59 - Configure build task (add configuration file `tasks.json` file for automation)


VS Code : https://code.visualstudio.com/download
You can download the executable program for mingw from here : https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/
Also MIngw Zip file can be downloaded from here : https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64

Thanks for watching.