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VS Code Config

Intro

This repository is about how to install and setup vs code for competitive programming (actually easy input & output) with c/c++ for windows users.

Note for old users of this repo : There were some problems with bash in windows, so i had to convert the tasks.json file for cmd (Command Prompt). If you are using this new json file then, please select cmd as default profile for vscode terminal. check this out

How To Configure

Note : You just need to do these things only for the first time of your workspace!

Pre-requirments

Need VS Code and C++ Compiler mingw installed in your windows pc.

Installing VS Code

Installing mingw

Seting Up Environment For C/C++

  • In you pc search for system environment

    search system enbironment

  • Go to Environment variables (on advance section)

  • On system varibale section, select path. Then click edit, select new & paste the link of your mingw bin folder. (Most probably its in C:\MinGW\bin, find it. For me it is C:\MinGW\bin)

  • Select ok>ok>apply>ok for everything.

Test MinGW path setup is working

  • Open cmd and type gcc and hit enter

  • If you find

    gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.

    or something like that then congrats :3

  • else if you cmd says :

    'gcc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

    Then go back to the Install mingw and check everything again.

Setup VS Code

  • In VS Code, Open your coding folder (From Menu bar : file->open folder )

  • Clik on terminal (At the top Menu bar)

  • Select configure task..

  • Select create task.json from template

  • Select others and it will create a new tasks.json file in your default folder under .vscode folder. The folder structure will be like this :


Your Default Folder (Workspace)
├───.vscode
│      ─── tasks.json

Terminal Setup

(Select Command Prompt as default terminal in vscode (If its not set already))

![](./images/terminal_window.png)

  • open terminal in vs code

  • at the right side of terminal window section there are some options like default terminal name (mine is already cmd), + v, split terminal sign,delete, ^, x. Select v beside + sign.

  • select select default profile

  • a select prompt will pop up at the top and select command prompt

  • close terminal clicking on delete icon

  • then reopen terminal and you will find cmd as your default terminal.

  • Done :D

More things to do

  • Split screen in 3 sections
    • split the main section in right (right click of mouse on a file and u will get the split options)
    • then split the right section into up-down (same as below)
  • create a file named input.txt
  • create a file named output.txt
  • open input.txt into the upper right section
  • open output.txt into the lower right section

This will be the final look of your vs code :

How To Use

Create your .cpp file, write code and give inputs in input.txt and press Ctrl+Shift+b and your output will be in the output.txt file.

Note : Make sure your mouse corsor is clicked or focused on the cpp file editor while you are running your code.

In the Repository i have also added config files for other Programming Languages too :

VS CODE Snippet

This one is made for my personal usage ,you can add functions as you wish and edit my name and doc

Setup

  • Select User Snippets (at top menubar, File/Code [for mac] > Perferences > User Snippets) and then select cpp.json.
  • copy or replace the cpp.json file and save.

Usage :

  • Creating a cpp file if you type inc and press Tab in your keyboard the snippet will load as i have set prefix as inc in my json file . (You can edit as your own !)
  • This will make programming easy and fast .

Snippets

Happy coding :3