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monique champagne
monique champagne
761 Points
Posted by monique champagne
monique champagne
761 Points

New here- quick questions about how I'm set up

Hello- Excited to learn here. Quick question.. I'm going through the videos.. wondering if this is how my work environment should be set up. I have the videos open in one window. When I click workspace- it opens another- and then when i click the eye icon to see the work im doing in workspace, it opens yet another video. Feels like maybe I'm missing something- am I supposed to be working from all three windows at once? Looks like the guy in the videos does it more efficiently... like hes working within one universal space... meanwhile- I'm clicking all over the place lol

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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
Data Analysis Techdegree Graduate 45,998 Points

Hey monique champagne !

Great to have you with us, and thanks for asking!

For the first part, yes, Workspaces always have opened up in their own window for me, I usually have it take up the left or right half of the screen if I'm working with one monitor.

As for the preview that opens up when clicking the eye icon, usually that will open as a new tab in my currently opened Chrome browser. If yours isn't doing that, you should be able to click/hold the tab of that new window and drag/release it in the top bar of your main Chrome browser and it will attach itself to it. Then if you were to have that take up the other side of the screen, you would just need to click between the video and the preview page.

But whatever workflow works best for you of course! Eventually, I rather enjoyed downloading the project files from the "Downloads" tab underneath the video and opening them in VS Code and working locally. I'm not sure how far you are in the courses yet and if you're familiar with all of that yet, but you will be soon so no worries :smiley: :thumbsup:

monique champagne
monique champagne
761 Points
monique champagne
monique champagne
761 Points

This is super helpful and totally makes sense. Is VS Code kind of like Replit (I just discovered replit) I think I will try VS Code out since I keep hearing about it :) Thank you so much, Travis!