Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Show Gist options
  • Select an option

  • Save sirsaw/6c49568a8ecff86feb5cc4a671af2ac7 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.

Select an option

Save sirsaw/6c49568a8ecff86feb5cc4a671af2ac7 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Mod 0 Session 3 Practice Tasks

Session 3 Practice Tasks

The assignments listed here should take you approximately 25 total minutes.

To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

1. Creating Files and Directories (10 min)

You can reference the files/directories portion of the lesson here.

Scroll down to the bottom and look at the image of the directories and files. Use commands in your terminal to create the directories and files structured exactly how they appear in the image.

When you're done, type history to see your commands. Copy and paste the commands that were used to create the directory and files:

paste your commands here

Since this is just a practice directory, feel free to remove the parent directory turing when you're done with this exercise.

2. Git Practice (15 min)

You can reference the files/directories portion of the lesson here.

Follow the steps below to practice the git workflow. Be ready to copy-paste your terminal output as confirmation of your practice.

  1. Create a directory called git_homework. Inside of there, create a file called quotes.txt.
  2. Initialize the directory
  3. Check the git status
  4. Add your notes file to the staging area
  5. Check the git status
  6. Create an initial commit
  7. Check the status
  8. Add your favorite quote to the quotes.txt file
  9. Check the status
  10. Check the diff
  11. Add the changes to the staging area
  12. Commit the new changes
  13. Check the status
  14. Show the log in oneline format

Copy and paste all of the terminal text from this process below (not just the history):

paste all of your terminal text here

IMPORTANT: Do not remove this git_practice directory. You will be using this directory during Thursday's session.

Extensions

  1. If time permits and you want extra git practice and alternative explanations (it's often beneficial to have something explained in many different ways), check out Codecademy's Git Course, particularly the first free item on the syllabus, "Basic Git Workflow". In Mod 0, we will not cover anything beyond Codecademy's intro section; however, you are welcome to check out the other git lessons listed on the syllabus if you want a head start.

  2. This course is how I personally learned command line. If time permits, I highly recommend reading and practicing.

  3. Add tab completion to make your life easier: Type Less. Do More.

@timomitchel
Copy link

Great job on these assignments Shane. To answer your questions - yes and yes. We need the gists to be public to view them, and this also means anyone else on github can navigate to these gists. If you're uncomfortable with that, then you can make them private once we have checked them. Let me know if you have questions!

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment