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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/217626598-Get-around-faster-with-keyboard-shortcuts
  2. https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/224766507-To-do-lists-in-Slack-
  • What are three Slack shortcuts and/or features that will contribute to your productivity?
  1. Command K - seems to be like command + Spacebar in osx. It brings up a search window so that I can just type what I', looking for instead of visually hunting for it.
  2. Option Shift Up arrow - Go to the next unread conversation. Another time saving shortcut to get me where I need to go without having to look around for what is unread.
  3. Command Shift K - browse DM's for that one conversation from a long time ago. Helpful for quickly jumping where you need to go.

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:The staging area seems most useful for allowing yourself to work freely, making changes wherever you happen to be, wile still allowing you to break up those changes into discreet commits, each with their own specific commit comment to document the changes. This reminds me of being "in the zone" while working on a painting. I might stand back and plan all of these changes, or next steps, but as I start working it can be difficult to remember them all before I finalize the painting. Staging the changes would be like jotting down notes of what parts of the composition need changes, and getting the paints ready to apply before committing them to the canvas permanently.

Questions/Comments/Confusions

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