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How to get started with C++ on Mac / Windows
Welcome back! C++ is a very popular programming language used in almost every company across the world, so let’s talk about the basics of this language, specifically installing it on your machine! It is recommended for MacOS users to make sure you have Xcode installed, here is a link on how to install that:
Installing IDE
Starting off we want to install an IDE, this is an integrated development environment, there are many different ones available but we’ll be using Visual Studio Code in this example, so let’s go ahead and install it. Let’s make our way over to the Visual Studio Code website:
From there, we want to download the specific software for our machine, luckily for us the website will automatically determine which machine we’re on, all we have to do is click the download button here:
Once downloaded you want to install this piece of software just like any other software. Once that is done we will then have to install the C++ extension for this environment, to do so we want to open up the VS Code (Visual Studio Code) app, we want to select the extensions view icon, search up C++ and install this extension:
Awesome! If you want to view the full documentation on Visual Studio Code C++ extension check out their page below:
