Installing VS Code

I strongly recommend installing VS Code for usability or using any other IDE you see fit for Python. Working as a triage catalyst (reviewer, support, and contributor role at Auto-GPT), I have encountered many people who got stuck because they used their text editor or even Microsoft Word.

Using advanced text editors configured properly might be adequate for basic scripting or editing configuration files, as they can be configured to avoid issues with text encoding and incorrect file extensions. However, IDEs such as VS Code offer more robust tools and integrations for a seamless development experience, especially when dealing with complex projects such as Auto-GPT; but we will have to edit JSON files, a .env file, and sometimes markdown (.md) files. Editing those with anything else than an IDE will probably result in the wrong file extension being added (for example, .env and settings.json could become .env.txt or settings.json.docx, which do not work).

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