‫So how are we going to go about installing VTS code?
‫Well, the first step is just to download and run the installer.
‫This is a pretty straightforward step.
‫Same on Mac and PC.
‫We can find the extensions tab.
‫Once that is done, we can install the following extensions.
‫They see sleep C++ extension for Microsoft and optionally but recommended Lee the Unreal Engine four
‫snippets extension by Captain Capps.
‫So let's see how this works.
‫Follow the link in the resources to get to Code Dot Visual Studio.
‫There's a fairly prominent download button there and it should automatically have detected your platform.
‫If not, there's a dropdown for other platforms.
‫Click download and wait for the executable.
‫Here to download you can see it's a fairly small download so it will only take 10 seconds or so depending
‫on the speed of your internet of course.
‫So do go ahead and get that started.
‫Now I'm going to go ahead and open it because it has downloaded for me so you can pause and follow along
‫once you've got that download.
‫So on a mac it's going to be downloading a zip file instead of the executable that we got on Windows.
‫And when we click to open this executable, it automatically extracts and we end up with a Visual Studio
‫code application here, which you can just go ahead and drag in to your applications folder to install
‫it and then you can launch it from Spotlight by typing in Visual Studio code and allowing it to open.
‫You may need to allow the opening of things from the web in your system settings, then you click open
‫and it shouldn't ask you that again.
‫And that should bring us to a page like this.
‫Then we're going to go through the installation wizard.
‫I'm going to accept the agreement, choose the default installation location and the default start menu
‫folder name.
‫You can click through to the next.
‫I don't want a desktop icon, but there are a couple of other options here that are nice, which allow
‫me to launch Visual Studio code from Windows Explorer so I can go ahead and check those two options
‫off as well.
‫I can click next, I can click install and this is a much smaller piece of software than either Xcode
‫or Visual Studio because it doesn't include a compiler, which is a big heavyweight piece of software.
‫And you can see it has installed incredibly quickly for me.
‫I didn't even have to pause the video and maybe you won't have to pause either.
‫So if you're following along, let's go ahead and launch Visual Studio code.
‫Now I'll click Finish and it will automatically launch for me.
‫And if you've never used it before, this is kind of what it's going to look like.
‫You're going to get this start page and nothing open by default.
‫I've got a few recent projects because I use Visual Studio code on a daily basis, but you may not.
‫So the next thing we need to do is install some extensions.
‫There is an extension tab.
‫Here is the last one in the left hand pane tab bar and you hover over it.
‫It says extensions.
‫We can click on that and it will show us the extensions that are currently installed.
‫This is new software for you.
‫You won't have any extensions.
‫I already have a few, but the ones I mentioned were the C slash sleep C++ by Microsoft and Unreal Engine.
‫Four snippets by Captain Caps.
‫Now you can search for these in the search bar at the top so I can search for C slash C++ and you can
‫see that it's going to come up with lots of options.
‫But the first option is the extension by Microsoft.
‫That's one you want to go ahead and install.
‫And then the next one is the unreal engine for snippets.
‫And again, there's quite a few extensions here that help with this.
‫But the one you're looking for is the one by Captain Capps.
‫Now, if at the time of recording this one still called Unreal Engine four, even though it works just
‫fine for Unreal Engine five, if this has been renamed in the future, do try searching for slight variations.
‫That might be something like Unreal Engine Snippets instead, and you might find it that way, but I'll
‫try and keep the video updated with any changes.
‫So once you've got those two extensions installed and Visual Studio code up and running, that's it
‫for this lecture.
‫You have successfully got ready to start programming in C++ and I'll see you in the next video.