Opening an empty Jupyter notebook in VSCODE

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1. Open VSCode
   
2. On left panel, click extensions icon (four squares with one offset from group)
   
3. Click three dot icon right of extension menu (...)
   
4. Check that Jupyter is present (Views->Jupyter). if so continue at step 5, otherwise:
   • In search box type 'Jup'
     
   • Right click on "Jupyter notebook support, interactive" icon, select install
     
5. Create a new '.ipynb' file in your workspace -- or -- from command line (ctrl+Shift+P) type Jupyter:Create New Blank Notebook'