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lecture 1.md

What's software engineering at all?

  • chief scribe: the make up of everything intangible on our devices.

What's backend?

  • Backend is the code that's stored on a computer somewhere that processes what

What's the terminal?

  • That program that enables us to run programs and do so much with commands

tilde

Terminal commands

pwd - print working directory ls/dir - print items in directory cd - change directory to specified directory

  • cd ..

These are commands: cd, ls, pwd etc.

commands can come with arguments. Arguments are extra information to tell how the command should be executed. We also have flags... it gives extra information about how a command should execute the task given.

ls -l SlightlyTechie ^. ^. ^ command. flag. argument.

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