You will need to install two pieces of software using the Microsoft Store:

• Install Python 3.12 from the Microsoft store.
• Install Visual Studio Code from the Microsoft store.

Then, do the following to set up Visual Studio Code for the course:

• Open Visual Studio Code.
• Click the icon with four squares on the left side of the interface.
• Search for caltech-cs in the bar that pops up.
• Click the Install button.
• After vscode installs our extension, it will ask you to restart vscode.
• When you restart, our extension will start running a bunch of terminal commands to setup your environment.
• When the terminal at the bottom of vscode stops outputting text, restart vscode.
• When you restart this time, vscode should prompt you to follow instructions to get a gitlab token.

First, go to python.org to download Python3.12. Then, you will need to download Visual Studio Code..

Then, do the following to set up Visual Studio Code for the course:

• Open Visual Studio Code.
• Click the icon with four squares on the left side of the interface.
• Search for caltech-cs in the bar that pops up.
• Click the Install button.
• After vscode installs our extension, it will ask you to restart vscode.
• When you restart, our extension will start running a bunch of terminal commands to setup your environment.
• When the terminal at the bottom of vscode stops outputting text, restart vscode.
• When you restart this time, vscode should prompt you to follow instructions to get a gitlab token.

To make this work on a chromebook, you will need to install crostini (Linux). If you need help with this, contact Prof. Blank ASAP! Otherwise, open a terminal and run the following command:

sudo apt install python3-poetry

Then, do the following to set up Visual Studio Code for the course:

• Open Visual Studio Code.
• Click the icon with four squares on the left side of the interface.
• Search for caltech-cs in the bar that pops up.
• Click the Install button.
• After vscode installs our extension, it will ask you to restart vscode.
• When you restart, our extension will start running a bunch of terminal commands to setup your environment.
• When the terminal at the bottom of vscode stops outputting text, restart vscode.
• When you restart this time, vscode should prompt you to follow instructions to get a gitlab token.

Install python3.11 if necessary, then install the python3-poetry package using your package manager.

Then, do the following to set up Visual Studio Code for the course:

• Open Visual Studio Code.
• Click the icon with four squares on the left side of the interface.
• Search for caltech-cs in the bar that pops up.
• Click the Install button.
• After vscode installs our extension, it will ask you to restart vscode.
• When you restart, our extension will start running a bunch of terminal commands to setup your environment.
• When the terminal at the bottom of vscode stops outputting text, restart vscode.
• When you restart this time, vscode should prompt you to follow instructions to get a gitlab token.