Building the vscode

I forked the vscode repository from Microsoft's Github. It is a very popular editor nowadays and I want to make some contributions to it hopefully. 

The building process was simple and straight forward. I followed the instruction on the official readme and install all the dependencies. Although there was some troubles such as the version issue of python on my Mac, I was still able to make it through. It's quite amazing to see the whole building process of vscode and finally the editor window pops up.

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