Welcome Cricket,
Definitely agree with Florian's points.
Something else I've found very useful is breadcrumbs. The two keyboard
shortcuts I probably use most are ctrl+shift+. (period) and ctrl+shift+;
(semicolon). Ctrl+shift+. Will help you navigate quickly through the file
you're currently editing. Ctrl+shift+; will help you quickly understand where
you are in the file and where that file is in the project. It's probably best
for you to play with these yourself than for me to explain them. For now, know
they are there and that they are great help to quickly navigate your source
code.
Also, make sure you have extensions installed for the language you're using.
Ctrl+shift+x will take you to the extension manager.
And most of all, don't hesitate to ask questions on this list. There are a lot
of very helpful people including some from Microsoft working on VS Code. This
is a great resource.
Cheers,
Joel
-----Original Message-----
From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of Florian Beijers
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 2:02 PM
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] Re: Introduction
Hello Cricket,
Welcome to the list :)
As for starting out, you will want to try to keep your screen reader in focus
mode (NVDA) or Virtual Cursor Off (JAWS) within VS Code for most of the things.
A few hotkeys that are good to know are f1, to bring up the command pallet
which will let you filter commands by typing, as well as f6 which will jump
screen reader focus between areas of the VS Code UI.
Shift+ctrl+e focuses and defocuses the explorer view which is
essentially where you access all your files and such, and shift+ctrl+m toggles
the problems view where your errors show up.
Apart from that, you should be able to follow most, quote, mainstream, end
quote, resources on the program. Good luck :)
Florian
2022-01-21 22:47 GMT+01:00, Cricket X. Bidleman <cricketbidleman@xxxxxxxxx>:
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I'm Cricket, a journalism Master's at Stanford. My program emphasizes
data journalism, so I'm starting to learn Python and R, and possibly
Ruby. VSCode has been highly recommended, so I'm setting it up and
learning as quickly as possible. I'll try to keep my incessant emails
to a minimum. Anyone got any advice for someone who's just starting
out? thanks.
Best,
cricket
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