My old eyes like the soft white screen with a Zoom effect. Zoom made all the controls larger also, not just the font size. 

Here are my extensions in 'extension' view. The ones with a star on the left are preinstalled by default.

Here are my few files so far:

Here is a Snip of my editor in 'terminal' view, with the Zoom effect and my python file's output:

Thank you Kalub, this class helped me get much more comfortable with VS.