Otherwise, you'll be presented with a list of tours to select from. If the current workspace only has a single code tour, then any of the above actions will automatically start that tour. Running the CodeTour: Start Tour command, and selecting the tour you'd like to take Tours can either be checked into a repo, to enable sharing with other contributors, or exported to a 'tour file', which allows anyone to replay the same tour, without having to clone any code to do it! This allows developers to clone a repo, and then immediately start learning it, without needing to refer to a CONTRIBUTING.md or tutorial instructions.md file and/or rely on help from others. The CodeTour extensions allows you to highlight and visualize bug reports, understand the context of a code review/PR change or simply complete a step of guide tasks to complete an assessment or assignment.Ī 'code tour' is simply a series of interactive steps, each of which are associated with a specific file/line, and include a description of the respective code. It's like a step by step guide or table of contents of activities to undertake.ĬodeTour is perfect for the development of walkthrough, tutorials and interactive hands on lesson and guides or for use when you want to on board new teaching, learning or research partners.ĬodeTour will make it easier to produce interactive step by step and walkthroughs for tutorials and lesson.ĬodeTour is perfect for bringing students up to speed on projects and code bases or providing guided tutorials or assessments. CodeTour is a Visual Studio Code extension, which allows you to record and playback guided walkthroughs of your codebases.

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