The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 20 minutes total.
To start this assignment:
- Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this 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.
Use Google to go find at least one online resource detailing keyboard shortcuts and/or features that are built into Slack.
- What resource(s) did you find? Paste them below:
Went right to the source, with slack.com
- What are three Slack shortcuts and/or features that will contribute to your productivity?
- Command + / = shows all shortcuts. A good one to save until I memorize the ones I'll need.
- Command + F = search all messages. Great for searching to see if someone else had a similiar problem as me, and if a suggested answer was submitted.
- Command + Shift + S =Starred items. Quickly go back to conversations, posts, or dates I saved.
What's the use of the staging area in git? on Stackoverflow (10 min)
The idea of the staging area is frequently one of the trickiest concepts to wrap your head around when you're first learning git. Read the question and answers (or do your own Googling on the git staging area). Then, create your own metaphor comparing the staging area to something in real life.
- Type your metaphor below: From my research and understanding so far, my analogy would be that of an oil painter. The staging area is a pencil on canvas. Ideas you are moving forward with, still able to edit. Oil on the pencil lines would be a commit. You could always go back over an idea with another pencil sketch, and add more paint on top. This would keep the bottom layer of original paint there, but the new layer would be in front. The staging area allows you to set up an idea or code, edit it until its ready for a commit, and then paint oil over it for a final file.
If you have any questions, comments, or confusions that you would an instructor to address, list them below:
- My question is what is GIT used for in an everyday sense. I understand that the program helps organize files and folders in three stages, allowing you to edit in each stage, merge files locally and unlocally, create branches of work, etc. The part I'm struggling with is where does this live on my computer? What is the application of GIT in a real world sense, not just a definition? Why do I need GIT? I'm just lost finding a way to ground this program in my head.
@vladd-png great question. Git is a way for us to maintain versions of a program. Think about when you update an app on your phone. Each update you can consider a commit, or a new version of that application, that is ideally better than the last. The staging area is an intermediary step before we decide to commit our work. We should only add to the staging area when we're pretty sure that the work should be committed. Let me know if that clears things up or if you have any follow up questions!