Mod 0 Session 3 Readings

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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://itunes.apple.com/us/story/id1451645456 (Found it through Mac App Store for Slack Shortcuts)

• What are three Slack shortcuts and/or features that will contribute to your productivity?

1. Using the keyboard to switch between channel with Command-K will definitely help not having to grab trackpad or a mouse to navigate the sidebar. Command-K brings up search for not only channel, but another student or staff member on Slack as well.
2. To edit the most recent message you sent, use up arrow key and it will bring up the textbox for you to edit. This is faster than using the three dots icon and then select edit message.
3. If there is a case where I end up belonging to too many channels and have already read what I needed to, it's very important to me to not have those red badges saying you still have unread messages from different channels so I can get started on working and be more productive! The shortcut is Escape button, or if there are multiple channels unread but you know you don't need to read them all, Shift-Escape.

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:
• Fulfillment Center with millions of products available for customers to purchase online.

1. Customer purchased items online resulting in warehouse associate to pick out products and get the products into a staging area designated for different orders. Associate scan barcode in each step, the product barcode, the bin it was picked out from, and the staging area barcode that the product was placed in.
2. It's possible that the customer order is not completed and cannot be packed yet because not every items have arrived at the staging area.
3. Once the order is completed, we move from the staging area of that order into packing area for an associate to pack and put on necessary labels from a device for scanning machine to process down the line with shipping labels. And then the conveyor belt would proceed to get those packages to shipping truck to their destinations (airport, local distributions, or direct shipments)
4. Between these steps, customers can still edit their order, cancel their order, or order more items.

• The point is to say that staging area helps with changes that may be coming before pushing it to the truck and customer. It helps with multiple steps process that ensure the status of each order is known to the management in case of delayed for any reasons.
• For example, if a package is still waiting to be packed, we can know that it's either because we are still waiting for more items or associate hasn't gotten to the order.

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, @peeratmac!