Microsoft brings lots of new features and improvements to its popular open-source code editor, Visual Studio Code.

You're taking a new programming class this fall, and you don't know anything about code. Python is taught widely in schools, and it's one of the most loved programming languages because it's simple.

Among the improvements to Python functionality in the open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor is a new start page highlighting the latest features, changes, tutorials and more.

VS Code supports code highlighting for Python without this extension. However, if you will be working with Python, you should install this extension.

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code has smoothed the "getting started" experience for its main extension along with many other improvements in the regular monthly update, this for ...

Setting up Visual Studio Code Even though Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft product, it’s available for all three major development platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS.