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:
- What are three Slack shortcuts and/or features that will contribute to your productivity?
- Command + Shift + K to open the direct messages menu
- Command + Shift + L to browse all channels
- Option + Shift + down arrow to read the next unread channel or DM
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: During my time delivering packages part-time for Amazon, as delivery drivers, we were required to report to the warehouse each morning and load our own vans with the packages that we were assigned for the day. Once the packages were loaded and the vans were ready, we left the warehouse and went out on our routes to deliver all of the packages we had.
Based on my understanding of the staging area in git, it is similar to the Amazon warehouse. All of the packages (changes) are prepared (staged) and then loaded into the vans to be delivered (committed).
If you have any questions, comments, or confusions that you would an instructor to address, list them below:
- Much like the previous homework assignments we have had thus far, most of these concepts are brand new to me, so it will take me a lot of practice and review to become comfortable with them.
Nice work, @eoneill23! I like your metaphor. It shows that after changes are added to the git staging area, they can still be modified if necessary (like packages could switch delivery vans). Only once the changes have been committed are they more permanent.
I understand that these concepts are brand new to you! It will take practice to become comfortable with them, but that is what these assignments are for! Your metaphor shows a good understanding of the git workflow that we've gone over so far.