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Session 3 Readings and Responses

The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 20 minutes total.

To start this assignment:

  1. Click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of this document.
  2. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers.
  3. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.

Slack Shortcuts and Features (10 min)

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:
  1. https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201374536
  2. https://slackhq.com/slick-features-and-capabilities-you-didnt-know-about-in-slack
  • What are three Slack shortcuts and/or features that will contribute to your productivity?
  1. command+K for Quick switcher
  2. up arrow to edit last message (in empty message box)
  3. Set a reminder on a specific thread

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: When a teacher is grading exams, they may make a pile of fully graded and noted exams while they continue working through the pile that has not been graded or needs addition notation. The pile of fully graded and noted exams is the staging area. It's done and ready to be filed in the cabinet but they aren't going to put each one in the cabinet as they go. They will group the completed ones together until they are ready to file. They may notice a trend as they continue through the pile and pull one of some of the papers back from the pile for further notation before returning them to the 'staging area' pile.

Questions/Comments/Confusions

If you have any questions, comments, or confusions that you would an instructor to address, list them below:

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Great job, @hfaerber!

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