Downloaded pygame on vscode and can't find my normal python folders.

[sage herald]

hey guys i downloaded pygame on vscode last night and i was just using regular python on vscode. i made vscode run pygame and now i cant find any of my normal python lessons i was working on... Does anyone know what i should do? Or how to revert back from pygame to normal python? if thats evena thing? or am i just dumb?????

[icy marsh]

It's a bit difficult to understand what you mean. Could you try explain what you mean by the following:

1. Downloaded pygame on vscode. How did you "download" it?
2. How did you "make vscode run pygame"
3. What do you mean by "normal python lessons"

[sage herald]

So i only had python yesterday. I have been following along with the harvard course on youtube from david malan. For some reason i decided to get pygame because i eventually want to try and make a game which is why i'm learning. And i got pygame and then i put it on vscode and ran the code to run pygame. So now when i type code in at the bottom of my terminal it says C:// blah black/desktop/pygame instead of /python and the only folder i have is from the example alien game instead of all the folders i made following the course 😭

[icy marsh]

David Malan is the goat

[icy marsh]

Oh you're talking about your file directory

Just use cd to change directory

brother's playing league 💀

[sage herald]

Where do i type cd into? O.o

[icy marsh]

The terminal

I'm pretty sure David should've explained it, but I can't remember in what lecture

[sage herald]

The cd thing didn't work for me

[icy marsh]

What does it say?

"didn't work" doesn't give much information my guy

[sage herald]

Just displays my directory with the same mypygame at the end

[icy marsh]

Can you copy and paste what you typed in the terminal and what it outputed?

[sage herald]

sure!

[icy marsh]

That's the easiest way to communicate what's happening

[sage herald]

PS C:\Users\danth\Desktop\MyPyGame> pip install pygame
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not wr
Requirement already satisfied: pygame in c:\user
s\danth\appdata\local\packages\pythonsoftwarefou
ndation.python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\localcache\loc
al-packages\python312\site-packages (2.5.2)
on312\site-packages (2.5.2)

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 23.2.1 -> 23.3.2
[notice] To update, run: C:\Users\danth\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowonSoftwareFound
ation.Python.3.12_qbz5n2kfra8p0\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pi
PS C:\Users\danth\Desktop\MyPyGame>

• History restored

PS C:\Users\danth\Desktop\MyPyGame>

• History restored

PS C:\Users\danth\Desktop\MyPyGame>

• History restored

PS C:\Users\danth\Desktop\MyPyGame>

[icy marsh]

Where is the cd?

[sage herald]

i type it and enter it but nothing happens lol

[icy marsh]

Why didn't you send those lines lol

[sage herald]

THANKFULLY though i found my coding folder and dragged it into the vscode so i didnt lose all my follow alongs

but it still says pygame lol

then i hit enter and nothing happens 😭

[icy marsh]

okay okay it's probably easier for me to find you a video lol

[sage herald]

lol okie

[icy marsh]

Btw, if you mean you dragged it to the left side of your thing, I wouldn't always rely on that cause I think it moves the actual files and folders

Which might screw stuff up

[sage herald]

😭

i never should have downloaded the pygame

i jumped the gun and ruined everything

[icy marsh]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBBWVgE0ewk

[icy marsh]

You're fine lol

Just take it as a learning opportunity

I remember downloading random python packages until it started screwing up my projects

It was a good justification for me to learn about python environments

[sage herald]

ohhhh ok so now i need to figure out the path i was using yesterday?

[icy marsh]

Yeah probably

[icy marsh]

But if you moved it then.....

[sage herald]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

yeah it still says pygame 😭

[icy marsh]

Why vscode changing your directory

I don't actually use vscode so I don't actually know what's happening

Luculent might

If they still lurking here 👀

[sage herald]

LOL im so boosted

[drifting raven]

Bro I haven't touched vscode for so long but I'll give it a look

[icy marsh]

Tbh If this was me, I'd just reinstall python and vscode lol

[drifting raven]

Because they're both root folders in an untitled workspace I don't think they'll have been moved

[sage herald]

I'm sorry guys i just got ambitious and now its biting me in the butt lol

[icy marsh]

Perhaps, I'm just guessing as I never used workspaces in vscode

[icy marsh]

Ambition is good. That's how you learn

[drifting raven]

Neither, I'm just going off what the docs are giving me 😝

[icy marsh]

This is good learning opportunity

You're learning new things about the command line, that you should use environments, and vscode is quirky at times

[drifting raven]

Any extensions installed on VS Code?

Just trying to get an idea of what environment I'm working with.

Or rather, any new ones?

[sage herald]

i got these

[drifting raven]

Holy shit vscode makes my computer loud. How tf you gonna be louder than intellij.

[drifting raven]

K, so just standard aside a snippets plugin.

[sage herald]

wait vscode has volume?!

[icy marsh]

That's crazy 💀

[drifting raven]

Nah, it's just that it runs in a chrome container so it eats memory and uses a ton of processing power

[icy marsh]

My suggestion is to learn to run python code from the terminal instead of through the vscode button lol

[drifting raven]

So when you open a terminal it will open the first most folder in the workspace (MyPyGame)

So I'd recommend instead opening the folders individually through File >> Open Folder or Ctrl+K, Ctrl+O

Then you'll have a single folder workspace that will open instead of the multi-root untitled workspace

[sage herald]

OHHHH

I THINK U FIX

i dragged and swapped the order and now its running in normal python

THANK YOU

PS C:\Users\danth\OneDrive\Documents\Coding> c:; cd 'c:\Users\danth\OneDrive\Documents\Coding'; & 'C:\Users\danth\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\python.exe' 'c:\Users\danth.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2023.22.1\pythonFiles\lib\python\debugpy\adapter/../..\debugpy\launcher' '60520' '--' 'C:\Users\danth\OneDrive\Documents\Coding\banana.py'

[drifting raven]

Learn to use python from the terminal (and the terminal in general) and you'll find this stuff infinitely easier.

[sage herald]

lol ok i will do that

i thought vscode was like "gold standard" since the harvard guy was doing it

[drifting raven]

Vscode is just what most people end up using

But there's better tools out if you're willing to have an IDE for each programming language.

[icy marsh]

The "gold standard" is the editor you feel comfortable with and the one that allows you to do the job that's needed

[sage herald]

ohhhh ok

[icy marsh]

cries in jetbrains subscription

[drifting raven]

Yep 😭

[icy marsh]

I gotta start paying for that stuff now as I'm not a student anymore

Cannot afford it tho lol

[drifting raven]

Community edition 🙃

Just spend 2 months configuring vim to your liking.

[icy marsh]

Notebooks are only available in Dataspell and Pycharm Pro rip

[sage herald]

Thank you guys again for helping me and being patient with me lol Being brand new is tough because i'm still learning how to talk like you guys too lol

[icy marsh]

Yeah I got neovim all set up to how I like it. Only thing is that notebooks are wack so I gotta either use jupyter lab or vscode. I hope I don't gotta use notebooks too much tho

[icy marsh]

All goods, we all start somewhere and I know how difficult it is to figure stuff out by yourself especially as a beginner

Keep it up with CS50. It's a great course that I highly recommend!

[sage herald]

ON LECTURE 4 i have to watch each lecture like 3 times to understand BUT IM GNNA KEEP PUSHING!!

[drifting raven]

Yeah, I don't want to write anything to do with notebooks.

[icy marsh]

I do data science work and a lot of data scientists prefer notebooks (which I understand) so unfortunately it's an unevitability at least for the next few years

[drifting raven]

Yeah, that's why I specifically avoided data science 😂

[shell steppe]

Are you taking notes?

Very important for understanding and retaining that information

[icy marsh]

Fair lmao. I just prefer maths and analysis over building software so that's why I did it

[drifting raven]

Yeah, I have a bad taste in my mouth after machine learning things when it comes to data.

[sage herald]

im note padding right now LOL bc im scrub

[icy marsh]

I personally would say it's highly dependent on the person. Especially with coding and CS concepts, a lot of the information is easily accessible online and most people take notes in such a way that it's detrimental to their learning

I prefer to just practice and use the things lots of times and try develop a conceptual and intuitive understanding

Which makes it much easier to get a refresher on the details with a simple google search

To each their own tho

[shell steppe]

That could be true we all have aspects that contribute to the quality of how we learn, I personally today just started the CS50 lecture and finished it. The first episode took me 4-5 hours even though it was 2 hours because I wrote 5 pages of notes by hand.

[drifting raven]

I got better by making a point of "I'm probably going to have to explain this to someone later on."

[icy marsh]

That's crazy hahaha

[icy marsh]

I actually found this really useful. That's why I try help people here as it reinforces my own understanding and help identify any gaps I have

[shell steppe]

I plan on doing the same with the rest of them because I value low level understanding before I start with actual training. I’ll also focus on cybersecurity and low level languages such as C/C++ and try some others

So it’s pretty needed

[drifting raven]

Iirc the retention rate of content that someone teaches is somewhere upwards of 95%

[icy marsh]

feynman technique go ham

[drifting raven]

I didn't know that when I was 14 and started doing it tho.

[icy marsh]

We really just started rambling on about random stuff in someone's help channel lol

[drifting raven]

Yep

That's how it works 😂

[icy marsh]

Do you mind me asking what you do?

[drifting raven]

I'm a full stack engineer

Mostly do Spring and React.

I hate both

[icy marsh]

Ahh true I remember seeing you talk about learning Spring

I can't do web dev for shit lol

I tried and hated it

[drifting raven]

But my other choice is maintaining a COBOL system so 🤷‍♂️

[shell steppe]

Doesn’t discord use React for its mobile app?

[drifting raven]

Idk maybe.

[shell steppe]

Might have to look into it.

[icy marsh]

😂

I think react and/or react native?

Can't remember tho

Web/app dev not my thing