From the course: Intro to Snowflake for Devs, Data Scientists, Data Engineers

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VS Code extension

VS Code extension

- So far in this course, we've worked exclusively inside the Snowflake browser-based UI, Snowsight, but there are many other ways to experience Snowflake. For example, Snowflake provides a bunch of drivers, like JDBC, Node.js and the Snowflake connector for Python that you can use to access Snowflake from your preferred development environment and in your preferred language. We're not going to spend time right now covering how to access Snowflake from a Jupyter Notebook or PyCharm or a whole host of other IDEs, but I do want to talk about Visual Studio Code, which I'll call VS Code going forward, because there's a Snowflake extension for VS Code that Snowflake maintains. This Snowflake extension means that working with Snowflake in VS Code is especially straightforward and convenient. And I'll be honest, I always feel pretty cool when I'm working in VS Code. Not as hardcore as just living life in a text editor like Emacs or Vim and pushing code directly to GitHub from there, but…

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