APRIL SPEIGHT is a developer who specializes in Python and conversational design for chat bots and AI Assistants. Her passion for learning and teaching Python led to her first published title, Bite-Size Python: An Introduction to Python Programming. She currently works on content creation and developer community engagement for Spatial Computing and Mixed Reality at Microsoft.

Introduction xix Part I Welcome to Visual Studio Code 1 Chapter 1 Getting Started 3 Installing Visual Studio Code 4 The Visual Studio Code User Interface 4 Activity Bar 5 Side Bar 6 Editor 7 Panels 11 Status Bar 12 Command Palette 12 Extensions 14 Customizations 15 Settings 16 Color Themes and Icons 18 Keybindings 18 Display Langage 18 Summary 19 Chapter 2 Hello World for Python 21 Installing a Python Interpreter 21 macOS 22 Linux 22 Windows 22 Installing the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code 22 Creating a Python File 23 Selecting an Interpreter 24 Setting a Default Interpreter 26 Settings Editor 26 settings.json File 26 Selecting a Linter 26 Editing a Python File 27 Running a Python File 29 Workflow Recap 30 Summary 31 Chapter 3 Editing Code 33 Quick Fixes 34 Code Completion, Definitions, and Declarations 35 Formatting 38 Edit Formatting Settings in the Settings Editor 39 Edit Formatting Settings in settings.json 40 Linting 41 Enable and Disable Linting 41 Run Linting 42 Linting Settings 43 Refactoring 44 Extract Variable 44 Extract Method 45 Sort Imports 46 Snippets 47 Summary 48 Part II Additional Visual Studio Code Features 51 Chapter 4 Managing Projects and Collaboration 53 Files and Folders 53 Open a Project 54 Navigate Files 56 Search across Files 57 Close a File or Folder 60 Environments 60 Virtual Environments 61 Conda Environments 61 Source Control 63 Initialize a Repository 65 Commit Changes 66 Branches 69 Remotes 70 Gutter Indicators 71 View Diffs 71 Push and Merge Commits 73 Pull Requests 74 Live Share 74 Install Live Share 75 Sign In to Live Share 76 Share a Project 76 Join a Session 78 Editing and Collaboration 80 Follow a Participant 80 Share a Terminal 81 Summary 82 Chapter 5 Debugging 83 Starting a Debug Session 84 Debug Commands 89 Continue 89 Step Over 90 Step Into 90 Step Out 91 Stop 91 Restart 92 Call Stack 92 Triggering a Breakpoint 93 Logpoints 95 Watch 96 The Debug Console 98 Launch Configurations 101 Summary 104 Chapter 6 Unit Testing 105 Enable and Discover Tests 105 Run Tests 109 Debug Tests 113 Summary 115 Chapter 7 Jupyter Notebook 117 Creating and Opening a Jupyter Notebook 118 Code Cell Modes 120 Adding Cells 121 Editing Cells 122 Running a Cell 124 Running a Single Cell 124 Running All Code Cells 124 Running Cells Above and Below a Code Cell 125 Additional Commands 126 Viewing Variables and Data 126 Viewing Plots 128 Debugging a Jupyter Notebook 129 Connecting to a Remote Server 130 Exporting a Notebook 131 Summary 132 Chapter 8 Using Git and GitHub with Visual Studio Code 135 Getting Started 135 GitHub Pull Requests and Issues Extension 136 Publish a Project to GitHub 139 Push Changes to GitHub 141 Manage Pull Requests and Issues 143 Pull Requests 144 Issues 147 Clone Repository 152 Timeline View 154 Summary 156 Chapter 9 Deploy a Django App to Azure App Service with the Azure App Service Extension 157 Getting Started 157 Creating a Django Project 159 Creating an App 161 Creating a Home Page 163 Creating Website Pages 166 Deploying to Azure 168 Summary 175 Chapter 10 Create and Debug a Flask App 177 Getting Started 177 Create a Flask App 178 Create and Render a Template 180 Debug the Flask App 184 Summary 187 Chapter 11 Create and Deploy a Container with Azure Container Registry and Azure App Service 189 Getting Started 189 Create a Container 191 Add Docker Files to the Project 191 Build an Image 193 Build and Run a Container 195 Debug a Container 197 Push an Image to the Registry 197 Create an Azure Container Registry 198 Determine the Image's Registry Location 199 Deploy the Container Image to Azure 201 Make Changes to the App and Deploy 205 Multicontainer Apps 206 Summary 207 Chapter 12 Deploy an Azure Function Trigger by a Timer 209 Getting Started 210 Create an Azure Function 211 Invoke the Function Locally 213 Add the Code to the Function 214 Deploy the Function to Azure 215 Summary 220 Appendix Getting Started with Azure 221 Index 225