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🗒️ Class 02: The Coder’s Computer

Choosing a Text Editor

There is no right or wrong choice when it comes to picking the best text editor. It ends up just being personal preference however there are 4 important features too look for.

• Code Completion
• Syntax Highlighting
• Theme Options
• A variety of Extentions readily available

CLI Commands

• pwd - Shows where you are or what directory you are in.
• ls - shows a list of all the things in our current location
• cd - allows us to change our current location by typing the command followed by the location ie cd [location]
• mkdir - Creates a directory in our current location. Need to specify the new directory name after command ie mkdir [directory_name]
• touch - Creates a file in our current location. File name needs to be specified after the command ie touch fileName.md
• rm - removes file. File name needs to be specified after command

What is happening in the following scenarios

1. cd projects - We are ‘moving our location’ or changing our directory location to the projects Folder
2. mkdir new-project - We are creating a new folder in the projects folder called new-project
3. touch new-project/newfile.md - In the new-project folder, we are creating a Markdown File called newfile
4. cd .. - We are going back one level and will be in the projects folder.
5. ls projects/new-project - We are listing all the items that are in the new-project directory/folder