Now in this course
we are primarily going to run a lot of commands
in the command line.
But we're also going to run these commands on projects
which are written with Node.js
or other programming languages.
So there will be code in this course
and there will be configuration falls like this.
Therefore you will need a code editor to follow along.
And you can of course use any editor of your choice
but I do recommend Visual Studio Code
especially if you don't know which editor to choose.
It's a free editor,
a free IDE available for Mac OS, Windows and Linux.
It's amazing and you can simply install it
form code.visualstudio.com, walk through that installer
and then have that tool installed here
which you see in the background.
You can then always open projects with file open
and then opening the folder which contains your code.
And if you wanna have the same look as I do,
you can go to the preferences and there on color theme
pick the dark plus default dark theme.
That's the theme I'm using which will give you that look.
In addition you can use the view menu here
to adjust the appearance
and show, and height, side and status bars.
And you can also go to the extensions menu here
to install certain extensions.
And here I can recommend the Docker extension
since that will help you
with writing these configuration files.
It will actually make that a bit easier
so that's something you might wanna look into.
I can also recommend that you install the prettier extension
because whilst you're not going to write a lot of code
this can help you with code auto formatting
to basically automatically clean up your code.
Besides that should be all
and these are although just some ideas
not something you have to use.
Just the setup I will be using throughout this course
and therefore with that setup
let's now get our hands dirty
and let's write some first Docker code
or bring up our first Docker container.