The Complete Visual Studio Code Course (Udemy.com)
Essential VSCode Tips, Tricks and Best Practices!
Created by: Codestars
Last updated December 2025
What you will learn
- Discover and master VSCode essentials and best practices
- Customise VSCode - Create the perfect workspace for yourself and your projects
- Work smart not hard, with 25+ recommended Extensions and Plugins
- Use VSCode with HTML, CSS, Python, node-js and LaTex
- With Git - Create and then share a local repository, and master Version Control!
- Speed up your workflow with Snippets and shortcuts
- Organise your projects efficiently, and synchronise your VSCode environment across machines
How it compares
Against the other 1,182 rated Udemy courses in IT & Software on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 67% of them
- Reviews301#716 of 1,183 by number of reviews
- Length7.1 hourslonger than 59% of them
- Last updatedDecember 2025more recently than 60% of them
Course Description
Welcome to The Complete Visual Studio Code Course!
Used by programmers around the world, Visual Studio Code is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS.
Whether you're learning Visual Studio Code for yourself, or to help you work more efficiently as part of a team, this 6.5hr course is guaranteed to help you get the most out of VSCode.
Remember, small tweaks to your setup can have a BIG impact!
The Complete Visual Studio Code Course is designed for beginners, and taught by industry expert Dr Nauman. Throughout this course you'll learn. . .
How to customise your VSCode workspace, and create the perfect environment for yourself and your projects
How to speed up your workflow by using snippets and shortcuts
How to organise your projects efficiently with folder and profiles, and synchronise your VSCode environment across machines
How VSCode can be used HTML, CSS, Python, node-js and LaTex (with a dedicated section on each)
How to share your code via GitHub, and the importance of Version Control in Git.
We'll also recommend 25+ Extensions and Plugins that you can use to work more efficiently!
Every course section ends with 3-6 tasks that put in to practice all the new skills you've just learnt! Each exercise is a hands-on coding exercise designed to test your learning AND give you the confidence you need to continue on your learning journey.
This course is a brilliant introduction to Visual Studio Code, and will help you and your colleagues work faster, and more efficiently on whatever project you decide.
A full breakdown of what this course covers is below. . .
How to install Visual Studio Code
What the key elements of the VSCode interface are
How to customise your VSCode via the settings
How to create and use files and folders
Using a terminal within VSCode
How and why to use Markdown in files
Essential early shortcuts, including Delete, Duplicate, Move, and Replace with Multiple Cursors
Customising the look of VSCode with themes and extensions
Key functionality of Search and Replace within Large Codebases
A basic and advanced introduction to Snippets - essential for an efficient workflow
How to assign shortcut keys
How to add Functionality with Extensions
Organising your projects with new windows and folders
Synchronising your VSCode environment across multiple locations (home and the office!)
Working with colleagues via GitHub
Best practices when using Jupyter and Jupyter Notebook
How to debug efficiently in a complex/large code base
How to create and use an interactive environment for code and debugging
Learn how to set up a node.js server
Git support and functionality within VSCode
Create a local repository in VSCode and share it on Git
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
301 Reviews
Codestars
Codestars is a community of instructors behind 100+ courses and over 3 million students worldwide. We were one of the first coding communities to build here, and we've kept building — across web development, mobile, cyber security, and now AI-powered development and automation.
We want to revolutionize the way people learn to code by making it simple, logical, fun and, above all, accessible. Our courses are built to teach real, applicable skills, taught by instructors who know the subject and know how to teach it.
Together, the instructors that make up the Codestars team create courses on all the topics that students want to learn in the way that students want to learn them: courses that are well-structured, super interactive, and easy to understand.
Whatever you're here to learn — from the fundamentals of programming to the latest in AI-powered development — you're learning from a channel that has already done this at scale, with millions of students, and a track record to show for it.
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Reviews
By Mark Orlando on 9/19/2026
Very professionally done! The user's voice was clear and not hurried and all the screens were the right size. My only dissapointment was there wasn't a section on Using VS Code to work in C# or VB.Net.
By Ainsley Gibson on 7/27/2026
Great session, easy to understand with the examples. Explanation of what is going on is really good and thorough! Thanks so much for this course! :-)
By Peter Schneider on 4/7/2026
With a little help from copilot, the lesson worked fine. The The Command Palate is an excellent tool
By Julius Smit on 1/14/2026
Er wordt goed en duidelijk verteld zodat je gemakkelijk kennis kunt maken met VSC
By Anonymized User on 12/2/2025
Very informative. Just what I needed to start using VSCode and experimenting with it.
By Jan Serfontein on 8/27/2025
Peace of mind by knowing that help is on help via Ctrl+Shift+P (not necessary to memorise various versions of command)
By I Gref on 2/1/2024
100% recommended if you want to learn to use VSC in all its diversity. I couldn't have asked for a better course or teacher. All topics are well organised and clearly explained, references and explanations of useful extensions, perfect image and sound. Many thanks to Dr. Mohammad Nauman who knows how to share his extensive knowledge in a pleasant and professional manner.
By Samuel Koraj on 1/21/2024
Its very focused on beginners, at least the first half of it. I have been using VSCode for years and still picked up a thing or two.
By Tod Cox on 12/28/2023
Very good overview of VSCode and some exposure to the use of extensions to enhance productivity. Additionally, the instructor's pace is relatively fast and the presentation is well thought-out for the material that is covered. Why only 4 stars? 2 reasons: (1) Despite the constant exhortations of the benefits of keyboard shortcuts over using the mouse, the lectures only very rarely show the actual mouse and keystrokes the instructor is using. Most modern screen capture packages make the display of mouse clicks and keystrokes trivial. The lectures would benefit greatly if all mouse clicks & keystrokes were shown to help reinforce the learning. (2) I would have liked to see the instructor cover a lower level language like C or C++ in addition to the examples the instructor chose to highlight. I personally have moved to VSCode with PlatformIO from Arduino IDE; I have no doubt that the instructor's deep expertise would have provided valuable lessons to improve productivity for embedded development.
By Chuck Untulis on 12/19/2023
I have learned a lot. I like that he repeats things so I can make sure I understand it. But sometimes have I difficulty understanding the speaker because of his accent and his speed of presentation. He also says "this thing" instead of describing what he is referring to
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Overall Score : 92 / 100












