Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Visual Studio Code, commonly referred to as VS Code, is an integrated development environment developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS, and web browsers. Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded version control with Git.

VS Code Pointers

• VS Code Website
• VS Code Documentation
• VS Code Github

Running VS Code options

There are at least two options to run VS Code:

• Online: Github Codespaces | Getting started with Github Codespaces
• Local: VS Code Download

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Introduction

VSCode overview and installation

Healthcare-specific extensions (Python, Jupyter, CSV viewers)

Basic Setup

Creating a healthcare project workspace

Setting up Python environment with healthcare libraries

Configuring version control for collaborative clinical research

Hands-on Exercise: Patient Data Analysis

Import anonymized patient dataset

Write code to filter patients by diagnosis categories

Calculate basic statistics on patient demographics

Visualize treatment outcomes

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Created: 04/29/2025 (C. Lizárraga)

Updated: 04/29/2025 (C. Lizárraga)

DataLab, Data Science Institute, University of Arizona.

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