Installing Python
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For our Programming Club lessons, we will be using Visual Studio Code, or vscode for short. While other options exist, we find that this is the best for our purposes.
Here is a link to download it: https://code.visualstudio.com/download
The installation process is fairly straightforward. It is worth noting that you may need to change the location of where vscode is installed. Other than that, the steps are fairly straightforward.
You should then be able to see the following screenshot:
The next important set of steps is to download the Python and Code Runner extensions for vscode. This can be done in the following steps:
If there are errors, it would be necessary to install Python from the following link (this is for Windows only): https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?linkID=2082640