Introducing The .NET Coding Pack for VS Code - Getting Started with C# for Beginners

When you're done installing, just press Finish and Visual Studio Code will launch into this .NET Interactive Notebook!

It's like Microsoft Word, except some of the paragraphs are words and some of the paragraphs (called "cells") are code you can run! 

Consider this a Beta Release as we want feedback and bugs from you!

We'll be developing notebooks and courseware but more importantly YOU can also make .NET Interactive Notebooks and share them on GitHub!

You can add Markdown (text) or add Code, and then share them with your friends or students!

NOTE: If you are a pro dev and already have Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code installed, you don't need to get this coding pack. The pack installs these things, locally, as anon admin user. You can just add the ones you don't have.

1. Install the latest Visual Studio Code.
2. Install the latest .NET 5 SDK
3. Install the .NET Interactive Notebooks extension from the marketplace.
4. Download our Getting Started with C# Notebook and open it in VS Code.

Give it a try at http://dot.net/learntocode and report issues here https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-dotnet-pack

Also be sure to scroll down on http://dot.net/learntocode as there are TONS of videos and docs to help you on your journey! We have courseware and training at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/dotnet/ and a community here to help https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/community.

Nearly every day we have YouTube shows with real humans talking about the things they're making with .NET! Check that out at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/live and subscribe to our YouTube https://youtube.com/dotnet.

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