Visual Studio Code Tutorial for macOS

WARNING

If you already have VSCode, make sure it is stored in your Applications folder, not your Downloads folder. Storing it in your Downloads folder will cause issues.

EECS280 Foundation

This guide is built on the EECS280 macOS VSCode Setup Tutorial.

The following changes were made for EECS281:

• Use EECS281 Makefile instead of EECS280 Makefile
• Use EECS281 Project 0 instead of EECS280 Project 1

Video Tutorial

Our video walkthrough contains the aforementioned changes, and is the recommended approach.

You can click here to watch it.

If you already have a working VS Code setup using the C/C++ and CodeLLDB extensions, you can skip to 4:46

Written Tutorial

If you don’t want to watch the video, and would instead prefer a written version, you can follow the linked EECS280 tutorial without the aforementioned changes, and then follow their EECS281 Project Setup Tutorial.