Setup Python and Visual Studio Code

Hi everyone! I’m Rezwan. Today I am going to show you, how to install python, visual studio code, integrate python with vscode and run our first application.
Open your windows explorer and click on the PC icon. Right-click and go to properties. In the system type, you can see that it is a 64-bit operating system. Nowadays most PCs are 64 bit but if your PC is 32 bit then you need to install 32-bit python and 32-bit visual studio code setup files.

Open your browser and google install python click on the first link from python.org and scroll down. Here you can see there are a lot of release versions, for this course, we are going to use version 3.8.10. Click on the link and go to the bottom of the page. You can see there is a windows installer for 64 bit. Download it. Open the installer and make sure “Add python 3.8 to PATH” is ticked and click install now. It will take some time to install the program. Now the installation is complete, click close.

Next, we are going to verify the installation process. Click on the start menu and type CMD. Open the command prompt. Type python and press enter. You will see the python version number and some other information. If you see this information then you have successfully installed python.

In this section, we are going to install visual studio code. Google install vscode and click on the first link from code.visualstudio.com. In the link, you will see there are setup files for all the major operating systems. I am going to download the system installer for windows 64 bit. Open the program after downloading. Select “I accept the agreement” and click next. In this screen make sure “Add to path” is ticked. Click next then click install. After the installation is complete, click finish.
Click the start menu and type visual studio. Open visual studio app. On the left side of the screen, you will see there are four squares. This is the extension button. Click on the extension and in the text box write python. Install the python extension from Microsoft. After the installation, exit the editor.
Now we are going to write our first program. Open Vscode, go to "File" and click "Open folder". Select the folder you wish to save your files. In my case, it is python_137 in C drive and click select folder. Make a new file and name it L1.py and save it. Write print(“Hello”). In the left bottom corner of your screen, it says python 3.8.10, If you have multiple pythons installed you can click here and select 3.8.10. To run the program, click run and start debugging. In the terminal on the bottom of the screen, you can see hello from the program. You can also click on the green button on the top right corner of your screen. It will also compile your program. So that’s the end of the video. Byeee.