I compiled these into a talk for the next Founders and Coders cohort, entitled 'Why The F*** Didn't I Know This Sooner?!', and I also wanted to share them here for those starting out on their own coding journeys.Įmmet gives you some default abbreviations for a range of file types including. You can watch someone demonstrate something while sharing their screen, but unless you see them typing on the keyboard you don't necessarily pick up on the key presses that could also save you seconds of your day! As a result there are a lot of nifty VS Code tricks that I have learned since starting my first role as a Full Stack Developer that I wish I had know during the course. Thanks to the collaborative power of the VS Code Live Share extension we were still able to pair program and go through the syllabus as planned, but one of the things we missed out on from not being in person was organically sharing the little tips and tricks that you would normally pick up from working next to each other. Two weeks into the course we went into lockdown in the UK and our cohort had to go remote for the remaining 16 weeks.

After teaching myself for a year I started coding full time when I joined the Founders and Coders web development bootcamp in March 2020.

Formating visual studio hotkeys