It’s a worthwhile suggestion, but the point to keep in mind is how many external tools like that are there? Do the course staff have to accommodate all such third party tools that aren’t actually part of the course? How about PyCharm? How about Spyder? How about Google Colab? They have given you a working environment. If you want to use any of the many different potential environments out there, then you need to have the skills to figure out how to make that work. It’s not reasonable to expect the course staff or the mentors to be your personal IT support staff for things that are beyond the scope of the course.
But maybe the better hope is that there are other VSCode users listening here and maybe some of them have figured this out and can share the type of environment file you need. Don’t get me wrong: it’s a completely fine question to ask, but the right way to consider it would be as a community support issue, not something the course staff or the mentors are required to act on …
I personally am not familiar with VSCode, so I don’t know the format of the information that you would need. But there have been various threads discussing how to extract the version information for the packages in the assignments here. Here’s a good one to start with and here’s another one with good links.