 Hi guys! So today we're going to be going over the steps involved in downloading and installing Visual Studio Code and how to get everything set up correctly within the program for use within this course. So the first thing you're going to need to do if you don't already have this installed on your system is you're going to need to download the Java SE Java Development Kit. I'll put a link to this page in the description down below the video so that you can easily find it. But basically on this page it's going to have the most recent Java SE edition at the top so I'm just going to click download here. Scroll down you're just going to need to accept the license agreement and then you just need to choose the correct download option for your system. For me it's going to be the Windows EXE file here and this will just take a couple minutes to download so we'll come back in a couple minutes. Okay so once that file is all downloaded we'll just go through the installation process which is very simple. So next that's fine and then it's very quick to install and that's it. So once we've done that we can go ahead and download a VS Code and I would recommend making sure you have this installed before you do the download and installation of VS Code. So now we'll go over here. I'll put a link to this website as well down in the description below. And once again you just need to pick the correct installation for your system. I'm just going to click the download for Windows and that should start downloading. There we go. And once again this is just going to take a couple minutes so we'll come back in a couple minutes. Okay so now that that is all downloaded we can go ahead and go through the install process and this is very easy as well. So we're just going to accept the agreement. You can change the destination if you like but I'm going to leave it as is. That's fine and you can leave this as is as well. I'm just going to create a desktop icon and install and this should be pretty quick to install. Yep all good and we'll go ahead and launch VS Code. And when you launch VS Code the first thing you'll always see is the welcome page. If you don't want to see this every time you open it up you can always choose to or you can always uncheck that option. So the first thing we're going to want to do is install the following extensions. So if we go down to extensions here you'll probably find it pretty easily. It's in my recommended the Java extension pack or if you don't see it you can always just search Java extension pack and it's gonna come up and we'll click on that and you can see that the extension pack involves a number of different extensions that we're going to need within the course. So we'll just click install and this will install very quickly and that is all sorted. Now there are a couple more things that I would recommend doing in order to complete your setup of VS Code. So the first thing is you may need to update settings.json to point to the home directory of your JDK in order to get everything in VS Code working. So in order to do that if you're in Windows you're going to do control shift p it's going to bring up this right here and then we're going to type in settings.json and I believe it is the top one here. Yes so the syntax for this we're going to need to put a comma under here. So just below everything else that is already within this settings.json we're going to type in java.home and then what we're going to do is we're going to find the address within our system of the JDK that we downloaded earlier. So for me it's here it is in program files java JDK. So I'll just click copy address and then I'm just going to paste it in between quotation marks here and you're going to need to just double up on the back slashes here and then the red line should disappear and that's all good for that. And now the last thing that I would recommend doing. So later on in the course we're going to be needing to do j unit testing and in order to get that working in VS Code it does require a little bit of setup. So I'll just go back to Chrome here. Again I'll put a link directly to the download for this so that you can just download the file underneath the video. But basically what we're going to be downloading is a jar file and this is just going to allow us to be able to do j unit testing within VS Code. So once that's all downloaded we're going to go back to the settings .json that we were in before. Just put a comment next to what you did earlier and then just go directly underneath. Now I'm just going to paste this in for the sake of brevity and I will put the syntax for this underneath the video in the description as well so that you can just copy paste it. But the only thing you're going to need to change this is the address where I've got that jar file that I just downloaded so you're just going to need to put the address of wherever the jar file is stored in your computer. And once you've put this in just make sure that we have saved it and then it's just going to ask us to restart it. We can do that. And now you should be all set up to start using VS Code in this course. So I hope you found this video helpful and thank you for watching.