When you start the editor for the first time you will see the welcome screen:

There is a bar on the left, called Activity Bar, with 5 icons.

That gives access to:

• The Explorer
• Search
• Source Control
• Run and Debug
• The Extensions

We’ll explore some of those panels in the other lessons.

But from here you can click around, and for example that “Get Started with VS Code” link is a good starting point:

There’s an onboarding and you can for example pick a new theme:

One important thing this introduces is the command palette, which lists a few useful commands, which you open by pressing the keyboard shortcut cmd/ctrl+shift+p, or from the menu View -> Command palette:

You had a quick glance at the power of VS Code.

Lessons in this unit: