[WIP] Drafts Experimental Tutorial Instructions for MacOS Tutorial

[kyukibug]

References and Addresses #243

I've created a VSCode Profile which:

• Contains all VSCode Extensions
• Disables AI Features
• Disables LLDB's "show disassembly" setting

And created a VSCode Task embedded within the EECS280 Profile which:

• Verifies XCode is installed
• Verifies Brew is installed
• Verifies CLI tools (tree, wget, git) are installed
• Verifies VSCode 'code' command works
• If any of these fail, the bash script offers to install it for the user.

I quickly drafted an experimental section in the EECS280 VSCode MacOS tutorial with instructions on how to get your machine verified/set up!

TODO:

• Verify this works from start to end
• Integrate the WSL version (I have a Windows machine so this is feasible for me)
• Verify that uname arch thingy is right

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The spec from this PR is available at https://preview.sesh.rs/previews/eecs280staff/tutorials/245/.

^{(Available until Sat Mar 21 2026.)}

[kyukibug]

Adds the WSL VSCode Tutorial which includes a profile with:

• Contains all VSCode Extensions (C/C++, WSL)
• Disables AI Features

And created a VSCode Task embedded within the EECS280 Profile mirroring the MacOS Version.

However, there is friction to the WSL setup which the macOS doesn't have. This VSCode "task" can really only be run if VSCode is opened in WSL. If the student failed to do this, the script will not do this for them.

[awdeorio]

I had trouble trying the extension. See comment.

Here's a brainstorm I had with Claude about making this a little closer to 1-click: https://claude.ai/share/4e6b6f66-9de7-48e0-a6f9-eb69df7150b5

[awdeorio]

Where do I paste the URL? When I do it in my browser, I get an in-browser VSCode. There doesn't seem to be a place to paste it in VS Code.