Text Editor

Any text editor, like Notepad, TextEdit, Notepad++, etc., can be used to write C/C++ code for the microcontroller. However, we will use VSCode (Visual Studio Code) in this class because it has a great deal of extra functionalities that makes writing the code easier. These functionalities include syntax highlighting, suggestions, Auto-Complete, and many more. It also interfaces with CMake so that the code can be compiled into a binary with a single click. Following are the steps for setting up VSCode properly.

MacOS

• Download the installer for VSCode from https://code.visualstudio.com/download and install it.

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• Install ‘C/C++ Extension Pack’.

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Windows/Linux

• Download the installer for VSCode from https://code.visualstudio.com/download for your operating system and run it.

• Follow the steps shown below. Make sure to tick ‘Open with VSCode’

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• Install `WSL’ extensions.

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• Follow the images below to open WSL in VSCode. Note that when you switch to WSL in VSCode, you’ll see WSL:Ubuntu written in the bottom left blue colored area.

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• Install ‘C/C++ Extension Pack’ in WSL.

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