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Visual Studio Code development containers in education: take our quick 5-minute survey

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Francesca Lazzeri
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Aug 12, 2020

Development containers with Visual Studio Code can serve as a fantastic tool in education to ensure students have a consistent coding environment. Dev containers take care of setup, which can oftentimes occupy the first few days or weeks of the semester and allow students and instructors to instead focus on what's truly important: learning and coding something great! 

 

The Visual Studio Code Remote - Containers extension lets you use a container as your main coding environment. In the classroom, an instructor can take an existing dev container, or create their own, and share it with the class. Each student can open the container in VS Code and automatically have the tools and runtimes they need to develop their applications. Students will also have access to VS Code's full feature set, including IntelliSense and debugging, while coding. 

 

We’d love to learn more about your interest in or usage of development containers in the classroom through the quick 5-minute survey below. Whether you’re already using dev containers in education or just hearing about them now, we want to hear from you. You also have the option to leave your contact information to connect with our engineering team:

Take the survey 

Updated Aug 12, 2020
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  • Sly_BandiT's avatar
    Sly_BandiT
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 14, 2020

    I wish I would have found this community (Microsoft Education) over a year ago! There are more useful resources here than at my college, but oddly enough I believe I have access to this because of my college. I love what you all have done here with the Microsoft community in general but for some reason, these tools and this community are not well-known by many other students and not promoted/advertised as accessible by the college either. In general, as a career, I would like to connect people with resources like these so I have begun following several Topics and have a bunch of modules from Learn saved. Now with the pandemic, online classes are terrible for IT students, at my college at least. I will be graduating soon so this wouldn't really apply to me, but I think it is a great idea to promote these types of resources to teachers as well as students and recent graduates. I am not sure if there is a Discord server setup for Microsoft Dev/Education Community, but creating one and integrating Microsoft apps like Flow, Power Bi, Planner, Sharepoint, etc. in order to show how they can work together would be a great way to branch out and reach all the developers that use Discord, it's Bots and Webhooks. If there is any info you could give me as a way to 'spread the word' other than just sharing this on different platforms that would be great! Thanks for your time!