I just found a solution.
So after installing make as pointed out by @ebueno through the StackOverflow link - I installed through chocolate. I just thought to open my git bash terminal which came with installing git and navigated to the starter project directory, and then ran the make get command and it worked.
The following may not be relevant;
I initially installed the make file by just searching Google. So when I saw that it could be installed through chocolate, as I already had this on my PC, I uninstalled the one I already had, and reinstalled it through chocolate as directed by the StackOverflow answer pointed out by @ebueno - hoping it would make a difference. I’m not sure it did, because I got the same error.
I also restarted by PC after installing via chocolate. I’m also not so sure that made any difference, as I still got the same error while running on vscode terminal.
Yes I was using the powershell terminal on vscode, and that was not working. So I’m guessing the make command needs a linux terminal to work, probably that is why it worked on the git bash terminal.
Also vscode has provision for switching to different kind of terminal, command prompt, powershell, and git bash. I think it also works if you use the git bash terminal in vscode