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.
Need help? You can go back to the files/directories portion of the lesson here.
Scroll down to the bottom of this page 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:
57 cd
58 mkdir session_3_practice
59 cdsession_3_practice
60 cd session_3_practice
61 touch budget.csv
62 touch mentors.txt
63 ls
64 mkdir notes
65 ls
66 cd notes
67 ls
68 touch git_notes.txt
69 touch command_line_notes.txt
70 cd ..
71 mkdir practice
72 touch git_practice.txt
73 ls
74 rm git_practice.txt
75 ls
76 cd session_3_practice/practice
77 cd practice
78 touch git_practice.txt
79 mkdir projects
80 cd projects
81 touch game.js
82 ls
83 history
Since this is just a practice directory, feel free to remove the parent directory session_3_practice
when you're done with this exercise.
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.
- Create a directory called
git_homework
. Inside of there, create a file calledquotes.txt
. - Initialize the directory
- Check the git status
- Add your
quotes.txt
file to the staging area - Check the git status
- Create an initial commit
- Check the status
- Add your favorite quote to the
quotes.txt
file - Check the status
- Check the diff
- Add the changes to the staging area
- Commit the new changes
- Check the status
- Show the log in oneline (yes,
oneline
, not a spelling error) format
Copy and paste all of the terminal text from this process below (not just the history):
andrewkinstler~$ cd git_homework
andrewkinstler~/git_homework$ touch quotes.txt
andrewkinstler~/git_homework$ ls
quotes.txt
andrewkinstler~/git_homework$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/andrewkinstler/git_homework/.git/
andrewkinstler~/git_homework$ git add quotes.txt
andrewkinstler~/git_homework$ git status
On branch master
No commits yet
Changes to be committed:
(use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage)
new file: quotes.txt
andrewkinstler~/git_homework$ git commit -m "Initial commit"
[master (root-commit) 7b3e44e] Initial commit
1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 quotes.txt
andrewkinstler~/git_homework[master]$ git status
On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean
andrewkinstler~/git_homework[master]$ echo "Protect the reputation of butter" >> quotes.txt
andrewkinstler~/git_homework[master !]$ git diff
diff --git a/quotes.txt b/quotes.txt
index e69de29..462bb16 100644
--- a/quotes.txt
+++ b/quotes.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Protect the reputation of butter
andrewkinstler~/git_homework[master !]$ git add quotes.txt
andrewkinstler~/git_homework[master !]$ git commit -m "Added text"
[master ee20471] Added text
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
andrewkinstler~/git_homework[master]$ git status
On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean
andrewkinstler~/git_homework[master]$ git log --pretty=oneline
ee20471685e37755b1bde1b0091e714dfa0f98aa (HEAD -> master) Added text
7b3e44e528057630b52b07b9a5059c5cc798a09b Initial commit
IMPORTANT: Do not remove this git_homework
directory. You will be using this directory during Thursday's session.
Look at the template below for a CardboardBox
class. Fill in missing blanks with additional attributes and methods.
Class: CardboardBox
Attributes:
- width (integer)
- depth (integer)
- height (integer)
- weight (integer)
Methods:
- break_down
- stack
- pack
- ship
If you have any questions, comments, or confusions that you would an instructor to address, list them below:
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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.
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This course is how I personally learned command line. If time permits, I highly recommend reading and practicing.
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Also recommended by Jeff Casimir: Michael Hartl's Learn Enough Command Line.
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Add tab completion to make your life easier: Type Less. Do More.