What's up guys. In this video, I'm gonna
show you how to set up or configure Visual Studio code for C and C plus plus programming so
that you can start cording with C or C plus plus programming in Visual Studio code. For this,
you need to install two things. The first one is MinGW compiler and the second one is Visual
Studio code. So let's begin by installing MinGW compiler. So MinGW basically is the most popular
and the best compiler for C and C plus plus programming in Windows. So let's get to the
point and install the compiler. Therefore, open your browser and type in MinGW and hit enter.
Here click the first link from sourceforge.net. Click on download and wait
for a couple of minutes. Once it finished downloading,
here click on open folder. This is my MinGW setup file. So double click
on the setup to install. This opens up the installer window. So click on install. This is
the default directory, so I would keep it as it is and click continue. Wait for some time until
it finish downloading important features. Now my download is complete. So click on continue.
This opens up the MinGW installation manager. So in the MinGW installation manager, there are
different packages that are going to be added. So here right click on the first package
and click on Mark for installation and do it for all packages so that they
will be included in your MinGW. After selecting all the packages, go
to installations and click on apply changes. Now click on apply. Wait for a
couple of minutes to get it installed. Now our download manager completed downloading
and extracting all the important packages to the MinGW. So click on close. Now let's add the path
of the MinGW compiler so that our system actually knows the compiler. So go to your C drive and here
you can see the MinGW. Click on it. In the MinGW, click on bin and copy the path by right clicking
here. it's important as it helps us to compile our code from anywhere in our system. Now go to
the taskbar and search for environment variables. So type in environment variables and click on
this environment variables option. This opens up the environment variables window. Click
on environment variables. So click on path then edit. Here simply click on new
and paste the path that we copied. Click on OK. Again ok. Now we finished installing
our MinGW compiler for C and C plus plus programming. So let's see if our MinGW compiler
is correctly installed. So go to the search bar and type in CMD to open the command prompt and on
the command prompt window, type in GCC space dash dash version and hit enter. Here you can see that
our compiler is correctly installed. Now let's install the IDE that is VS code. So to install it,
open up your browser and on the URL bar type in code.visualstudio.com and hit enter. This opens up
the official site of Visual Studio code where you can download the installer. Here it automatically
identifies my Windows operating system. If you want to download it for a different
operating system other than the windows, you can click the down arrow and select the option
for your operating system. So to download it for Windows, simply click on download for Windows
and wait for a couple of seconds until the setup for the installer is fully downloaded. Once it
finished downloading, click on open folder. Now double click on this set up file to install. Here
simply accept the agreement and click on next. Now keep the default location
as it is and click on next. Again next. Here it's important to check the
first option to create a desktop icon and check this option to add the open with code
action to Windows Explorer File context menu and finally check this option to enable
the same option for directory context menu and then click on next. Now simply click on
install and it's going to start installing and finally click on finish. This launches the
visual studio code. So we have Visual Studio code ready for coding in our system. Once we finished
installing MinGW compiler and visual studio code, let's directly dive into setting up vs
code for C and C plus plus programming. So open up the visual studio code by typing
in Visual Studio code at your search bar or the visual studio code shortcut. This opens
up the visual studio code welcome screen. Now on the left hand side, go to extensions and
click on it. Here in the search bar type in C C++ and click on the C C plus plus extension
published by Microsoft. Click on install. This extension provides the language support
for C and C plus plus to visual studio code. Wait for the extension to finish installing.
Once it's finished installing this extension, once again go to the search bar and type in code
Runner to install one more important extension. This extension will help you to run
C and C plus plus programs easily by just clicking on a single button. Now
go to code Runner and click on install. Now this extension is installed successfully. Next restart the visual studio code.
So close it and open it up again. Now let's set up the workspace by adding a folder. So go to file and click on
add folder to workspace. You can create a folder anywhere in your PC and
add it to the workspace. I'm gonna put it in my desktop, create a new folder here and name it C
and CPP files. Now select the folder and add it. Here you can see the folder we have created. You can also save the workspace with the
name of your choice. For that go to file and click on Save workspace as and it opens
up a window where you can name your workspace. So I'm gonna save it in my desktop with a
name let's say, c c plus plus programming and click on Save. Now you can see that we
have the workspace which contains the folder we have already created. Now let's create
a file inside the folder. So select this folder and click on this new file button.
Name the file with let's say, Hello.c. So the file Hello.c is opened here. Now
let's create a simple Hello World program. If you are new to C programming and curious
about how we have written this program, you can watch my video tutorials on C
programming. But for now let's focus on how we can run C programs in Visual Studio
code. So to run this program you have a couple of options to use. The first option is that you
can go to the top right corner and click on this run code icon. The second option is you can use
keyboard shortcuts that is press Ctrl alt N and it will run the program or the third option is that
you can right click here and click on run code. Now you can see here in the output tab that the
output is displayed which is Hello World. Alright, so we are now able to run a simple C program that
simply displays an output. But what if you write a program that needs a user input? In this case you
can't enter an input from this output tab because this output tab is read only. So let's test it
by writing a program that demands a user input. Now run this program and you can see that
it doesn't display anything in the output tab as the output tab is read only.
So the solution is stop this program by pressing alt Ctrl M on your keyboard and
configure the settings. Therefore, go to file and go all the way down to preferences, then
select settings and click on extensions. Now go all the way down to run
code configuration and click on it. Then scroll down to run in terminal and
check it. Save it by pressing Ctrl + S on your keyboard and close the settings.
Now come back to the code and run it. Here the code runs and it says enter number.
Let's say 78 and it says the number is 78. So you are now all set to run any C or C plus
plus programs on Visual Studio code. Thanks for watching and if you like the video,
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