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This is your main working page for your noncredit online course, Visual Studio Code for Technical Writers. From this page you can go to study materials, read about project recommendations, find out what to name your files, see recommended projects recommended due dates, go to the online textbook and other resources for this course.

When you complete a unit, click the Completed button for that unit. If you mistakenly mark a unit as completed, contact your instructor (or just wait until you've actually completed it.)

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Course Overview

Read the overview of this course to learn how it works and what the requirements are. Make sure that you understand the objectives of this course, the schedule of activities, the methods of operation, and the assessment of your work.

Install Visual Studio Code

Use the Install Visual Studio Code study guide.

You may need to do this for every new Visual Studio Code session. See the stackoverflow link below solutions.

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unit_date: recommended due date
Visual Studio Code: Projects, Folders, Files

See User Interface for an overview of the Visual Studio Code interface. Visual Studio Code

File and Folders to see how to create a folder with files in it in Visual Studio Code. McMurrey Associates.

VS Code tips — Previewing HTML with the Live Preview extension. Code 2020

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HTML & CSS with Visual Studio Code & Emmet

Use the HTML, CSS, Emmet study guide to learn how to usec Emmet in Visual Studio Code to develop web pages and sites efficiently.

unit_date: recommended due date for macros
Customize Visual Studio Code Appearance & Open Browser

Use the Customize Your Visual Studio Code study guide.

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Liveload

Create a Macro in Visual Studio Code

Use the Create Macro study guide to learn how to record macros for common often-repeated tasks and how to associate them with key sequences.

Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code

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Create a Snippet in Visual Studio Code

A snippet enables you to insert a block of text or code that you use often. You could probably embed that block of text in a macro, but creating a macro is way easier for blocks of text.

Please read the Create a Snippet study guide.

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Use Visual Studio Code for Markdown Previews

Use the Visual Studio Code for Markdown Previews study guide to see how to view Markdown rendering.

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Use Visual Studio Code for Git/GitHub Development

Use the Visual Studio Code for Git/GitHub Development study guide to see how facilitate Perl and JavaScript.

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Use Visual Studio Code in a Programming Environment

Use the Visual Studio Code Programming study guide to see how facilitate Perl and JavaScript.

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Terminal

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