Academy Essentials

Glossary

Understand essential Visual Studio Code, web, Git and GitHub terminology.

Workspace

A folder or collection of folders opened as a project context.

Explorer

The VS Code view for project files and folders.

Extension

An installed package that adds editor features.

Terminal

A text interface for running commands in the current environment.

HTML

Markup that gives web content structure and meaning.

CSS

Rules that control presentation and layout.

JavaScript

A programming language used to add behaviour and data processing.

DOM

The browser's object representation of a document.

Repository

A project tracked by a version-control system.

Commit

A named snapshot of tracked changes.

Branch

A separate line of repository development.

Remote

A repository location hosted outside the local working folder.