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

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

That gives access to:

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

We’ll explore some of those panels in 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 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. You open it by pressing the keyboard shortcut Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P, or from the menu View -> Command Palette:

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

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	▶︎ The interface
2:	Opening folders
3:	Editing
4:	Search
5:	Source control
6:	Extensions
7:	Themes
8:	Recommended extensions
9:	The command palette
10:	Shortcuts
11:	Customization
12:	Terminal
13:	How to use VS Code