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Becoming A Software Developer

Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft used to develop computer programs, websites, web apps, and mobile apps. It includes a code editor, debugger, and tools to support various programming languages. Plugins can expand its functionality to add source control and tools for specific domains. The terminal is a command line interface that allows users to navigate directories, install packages, run commands, and perform most system tasks, making it a powerful tool, especially in Linux environments.

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Becoming A Software Developer

Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft used to develop computer programs, websites, web apps, and mobile apps. It includes a code editor, debugger, and tools to support various programming languages. Plugins can expand its functionality to add source control and tools for specific domains. The terminal is a command line interface that allows users to navigate directories, install packages, run commands, and perform most system tasks, making it a powerful tool, especially in Linux environments.

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1) What is Visual Studio? What is it used for?

Ans: Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used
to develop computer programs, as well as websites, web apps, web services and mobile
apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API,
Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft
Silverlight.
Visual Studio includes a code editor supporting IntelliSense (the code completion
component) as well as code refactoring. The integrated debugger works both as a source-
level debugger and a machine-level debugger. Other built-in tools include a code profiler,
designer for building GUI applications, web designer, class designer, and database schema
designer. It accepts plug-ins that expand the functionality at almost every level—including
adding support for source control systems (like Subversion and Git) and adding new toolsets
like editors and visual designers for domain-specific languages or toolsets for other aspects
of the software development lifecycle (like the Azure DevOps client: Team Explorer).

Visual Studio supports 36 different programming languages and allows the code editor and
debugger to support (to varying degrees) nearly any programming language, provided a
language-specific service exists. Built-in languages include C, C++, C++/CLI, Visual Basic .NET,
C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, XML, XSLT, HTML, and CSS. Support for other languages such as
Python, Ruby, Node.js, and M among others is available via plug-ins. Java (and J#) were
supported in the past.

Uses of Visual Studio


 It is used to write codes in various programming languages.
 It has many extensions that to deal with programming. Those extensions help in
beautifying the code and check syntax and semantics
 It has a debug mode which is used to perform dry run and find bugs
 VS code has built in plugins for testing and automation
 It has support to push our code to git or clone the repository

2) What is a Terminal? What is it used for?


Ans: The terminal is an interface that lets you access the command line.
It is also called as command prompt. In Linux, we can see terminal icon, by double click on it
we can open it.
Basically, Terminal is a hardware device that reads input and shows (displays) output on the
screen. This is simple command line interface.
Windows and MacOS are based on Graphical User Interface whereas Linux is mostly
Command Line Interface.
Uses of Terminal
 It helps to navigate between our directories.
 It is used to install or upgrade our system packages or a programming language
packages.
 Shell commands, network commands and other basic commands can be used in
terminal
 It is standardised through POSIX notations. So, the commands used in the terminal of
a computer works similar in all the computer of same operating system
 It is a most powerful tool because of its features that it is capable of handling all the
system data.
 In Linux, almost any task or operation can be performed with terminal.

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