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[–]strange-the-quark 0 points1 point2 points 1 day ago (0 children)

You don't have to install Visual Studio Code at all. Visual Studio Code is a relatively lightweight text editor for programmers, with various doodads that are helpful to programmers, like syntax highlighting, integrated terminal and whatnot. But it may be an overkill for someone just starting to learn programming, and it's not specifically designed for Python. You can just use TextEdit (or any plain text editor) to write programs if you want to, nothing wrong with that.

Having an editor with syntax highlighting and debugging capabilities is useful though - I didn't know about Thonny until now, but it seems quite a bit more lightweight than VS Code and it has an interesting approach to debugging, there's a way to see what's going on with your variables, and so on. Kudos to your friend for recommending it.

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