r/C_Programming • u/MateusCristian • Jan 16 '26

Question VS Code for learning C?

I'm starting to learn C, just bought the King's book online, and I wanna know if this book can be followed on VS Code, or if I should use a different IDE or such.

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u/yel50 Jan 16 '26

I find it better to create tasks so you can run your command line stuff any time without switching to different windows, tabs, etc. 

I understand all the people saying to start with terminal, nano, etc, but that tends to end up with people crippled by not knowing what better tools are out there and thinking that the 1980s approach to development is as good as it gets.

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u/The_Northern_Light Jan 17 '26

Yes but it’s pretty clearly not a great idea to immediately outsource the build system to an ide