A how-to guide for becoming proficient with VS Code
Download the installer from https://code.visualstudio.com/download and follow the instructions to install. When you are done, open VS Code.
To check if git is already installed, open a terminal and type git version. If git is not a recognized command, you need to install it.
Download the installer from https://gitforwindows.org/ and follow the instructions to install.
Go to the home page of this repo at https://github.com/ianeyk/vscode-workshop. Click Fork in the top right. On the next page, click Create Fork. This should take you to a page that looks similar to the repo home page, except the URL is different, indicating it is your personal copy of the repo.
Click Code to open a dialog box. Click on the HTTPS tab. Then click the copy icon. This copies the repo URL to your clipboard.
In VS Code, open a new terminal using Ctrl+~ or Terminal -> New Terminal from the main menu (it may be hidden under the ... in the main menu). Enter the following two commands into the terminal, and make sure to modify __your_username__ to be your Olin username (for me it is ieykamp) and __your_repo_url__ to be the thing you paste from your clipboard.
cd "C:/Users/__your_username__/Documents"
git clone __your_repo_url__
In VS Code, from the main menu, go to File -> Open Folder. In the dialog box, navigate to the C:/Users/__your_username__/Documents/vscode-workshop folder. You should see the subfolders of this repo (Task 1, Task 2, etc.). Click Open Folder to open the top-level folder in VS code.
Open the explorer tab by pressing Ctrl+Shift+E or clicking the top icon on the leftmost panel of VS Code (it looks like a file symbol). This shows all the files and subdirectories in your current folder and should include Task 1, Task 2, etc. Click on the Task 1 folder to expand it, and then double-click the file task1.md.
This should open the file in the main editor window. Click anywhere in the editor window, and then press Ctrl+Shift+V to open a markdown preview.