Which version of visual studio is better for me

Question

Hi fellas,
I'm a 16 years old boy from Bangladesh. And I want to learn C#, ASP dot net. By the way, I had just finished HTML, CSS, javascript learning from youtube and developed some web applications. Ok, let me explain my problem.

I got a laptop from my parents to do study and some extra staff. And now I'm confused with my laptop configuration. It's a core i3, 4Gb ram. I know all of these community members are older than me from knowledge, experience. So please tell me which version of Microsoft visual studio will be better for my laptop and my learning journey. Thanks. Here I'm inserting my computer configuration details, just check and let me know.

Thanks,
Hiran Roy.

Answer 1

visual studio 2022 community is the free version meant for students. this is a full fledged IDE and consume lots of resources. you have the min configuration

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&rel=17

but a lighter weight solution would to use visual studio code.

https://code.visualstudio.com

many of the you tube videos will use this tool.

I would start with visual studio code, and the dotnet command line. assuming you installed the dotnet sdk and visual studio code:

mkdir myfirstapp
cd myfirstapp
dotnet new razor
code .

you can then edit and debug.

Answer 2

Hi HiranRoy-0560,

I suggest you could try to follow this article to know the computer disk and memory requirement for the visual studio. Besides, I agreed Bruce said we suggest you could try to use VS code instead of visual studio, since if you open a large project, VS is more slower than VS code.