day 8

100 days of code

<day 8>

Day two of the bootcamp and we’ve already covered a ton of material and I’m trying my best to digest it all.  A little overwhelmed, to be honest.  I realize now that I’m going to have to drastically adjust my schedule, if I’m going to do well in this bootcamp. 

I planned on exercising before class, but I see now that I may have to cut that back to 45 mins-an hour and use the rest of that time to code and review material.  In my initial daily schedule, I wrote down that I planned on going to bed by 9pm and I laugh at that now, because I don’t see that happening, at all.  


I’ve been taking the teacher’s advice and using the command line, instead of the GUI, for making folders and organizing them.  I just created folders and skeleton HTML/CSS files using the command line over and over again and I learned the commands to use for GitHub.  This looked really complicated at first, but I think I’m getting the hang of it.


As soon as I’m able to, I’m going to set up my coding practice the way I set up my painting routine.  I would never finish a painting in one sitting.  I usually start on 7-8 paintings at once and I jump from painting to painting; adding a stroke here and there until they are all finished at the same time.  I can see now that GitHub is the perfect tool to do just that; but with code.  I’ll set up 7-8 skeleton files and work on different projects little by little until I finish them all.   


For those interested, here are the common command line and GitHub commands that I find myself using over and over.  It looks complex, but once you know them, you don’t even think about them anymore.  


COMMAND LINE COMMANDS:


cd ‘folder’ (change to whatever folder (or directory) you choose)


cd ~ (change directory to home)


ls (list what’s inside the current directory you’re in)


mkdir (make a new directory or folder)


touch ‘filename’ (creates a new file inside your current directory)


GIT COMMANDS:


git status: check the status of the repo


git add file_name: add one file


git add .: add all files


git commit -m “commit message”: commit your files along with a message.  (Do the “-m commit message” to avoid going into the twilight zone. That’s what my teacher said. lol)


git remote add origin ‘https://github.com/username/reponame.git' - the remote url to your GitHub repo


git push origin master - push your files up to GitHub on the master branch  (better to use it solo, not on group projects)


git push - push to remote repository


git pull - pull latest from remote repository


git clone - clone repository into a new directory