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+title: "VS Code"
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+# Getting Started with VS Code
+This page is intended as primer/SOP for installing and configuring VS Code for a generic Python project.
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+The primary steps covered here are:
+-  Install VS Code
+-  Install GitHub and source control extensions
+-  Install Python linting/formatting extensions in VS Code
+-  Basic usage instructions for a template Python project
+
+## Install VS Code
+later
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+## Install Extensions
+later
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+## Basic Usage
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+title: "Tools"
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+# Python Development Tools
+There are many useful Python development tools. This section of the site offers guidance on which tools to use to get started and is based purely on know-how rather than any claims of one tool being better than any other. The tools identified and summarized here are selected based on current usage and willingness of a team member to share their knowledge here. If you like a tool that is not included in this section, please contribute content to improve the coverage here.
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+## Integrated Development Environments
+Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are the workhorse for efficient software development, whether doing simple scripting or developing complex machine learning systems. The *recommended* IDE for Python development at present is VS Code, in the sense that current contributors to this content use VS Code and have more knowledge to share about VS Code than other IDEs such as, for example, PyCharm or Spyder. 
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+### VS Code
+Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a free multi-language IDE developed by Microsoft and is popularly used by software engineers for developing solutions in numerous languages. The VS Code extensions ecosystem is large and active - there are extensions for linting, formatting, source control, containerization, cloud computing services and much (much) more.
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+Ready to give it a try? See our [primer on installing and setting up VS Code](vscode_setup.qmd) to effectively collaborate on Python development projects. 
+
+### Others
+Feel free to add short descriptions of your favorite IDE and link to a primer page here.
+
+## Package and Environment Management
+Perhaps more controversial than what IDE to use, what tools should you use to manage project packages and evironments?
+
+### Anaconda
+The much maligned but rarely defeated...
+
+### Python Package Index
+The foundation...
+
+### Venv
+
+## Containerization
+Package and environment management is necessary but insufficient to ensure reproducible projects. Environments run on operating systems, which run on real or virtual machines. Containerization is a technology developed to support reproducibility and virtualization (at scale) of operating systems. The leading tools for containerization of Python (or, really, any development) projects are Docker and Kubernetes. 
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+### Docker
+is...
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+### Kubernetes
+is... 
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+### Azure Container Instances
+is...
+
+### Helm
+is...
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