Welcome to your first day of class

Today’s topics

• Orientation
• Developer tools
  • Setting up your computer
  • Using the command line
  • Git & GitHub

✅ TODO today

1. Fill out your first self-assessment. This is to set a starting point. You are not expected to already be familiar with any of the concepts you see.
2. Read the student guidelines and how we work remotely docs in their entirety.
3. Make sure your computer is set up and ready to go (links to instructions are below in 🔖 Resources).
4. Read the Really friendly command-line intro.
5. Read the Really friendly Git intro.
6. Complete the GitHub tutorial (below) and submit this form when you are done.

💻 Today’s Project: GitHub tutorial

UPDATE: do the steps in this order ➡️

1, 6, 5, 2, 3 (the first line is the action), 4, 7, 8, 9, 10

link

• NOTE: In the industry, main has replaced master as the convention for referring to the primary branch. Instructions in your setup set your default branch to main. When referring to this and any other Git-related documentation, replace master with main.
• Submit the link to your pull request url using this form.

🔖 Resources

First Day Orientation and Setup

• Student guidelines
• How we work remotely
• Tutorial on Using Slack
• Momentum Slack guidelines
• Setting up your computer - Apple M1
• Setting up your computer - Intel

Command Line & Git References

• Really friendly command-line intro
• Really friendly Git intro
• Git Cheat Sheet PDF
• Git handbook from GitHub
• Git Command Explorer – this tool lets you look up commands by what you are trying to do

🦉 Code & Notes

• command line notes
• git notes