This site lists the protips that we shared with students during our courses
We are programmers. We type a lot. Let’s save our fingers and make the precious keystrokes we do count!
We’ve given you a brand new (for most of you, I presume) code editor - Visual Studio Code. It’s a very powerful tool and right now in lead of the preferred editors for JavaScript developers.
The trait of a really good editor is that you never need to use the mouse. Everything (!) has a keyboard shortcut, that you could and should use.
The full map (https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-macos.pdf) is horrendously large and I know noone that knows all of these. But you should know a few commands to simplify your everyday life.
Here are my top 10:
In the list above: