At this point it's quite overwhelming so today was like a breather and a step back as far as the learning went because we had a presentation from our TA Tarun who himself completed this course a year and a half ago. He told us to "LEAN IN" which basically means: yes - you feel like you're on the edge of a cliff here and you're scared to fall so you want to take a step back but DONT. LEAN IN. ok got it! Coz right now im overwhelmed and scared shitless even though im absolutely LOVING IT. This week has cemented in my mind that this is what I want to do and I am so excited to be at the point 3 months from now where the course is done and I know all this stuff. But must struggle on to get to that point!
1:1 SCHEDULE (because we receive a 15 minute 1 on 1 chat weekly with Tarun and Joel - each taking alternating weeks
HAPPITAILS (homework exercise to create an animal shelter)
Ok so here are my notes (Jade pointed out that these translate to gibberish but if you are doing the course yourself or know code maybe you can decipher it... )
Showing sore points of ruby because rails will take away the problem. Like if an element is nested inside an element in an element (George lives in apartment A in building B) we have to look through all the apartments and all the buildings to find which one relates to George.
GITHUB --> uploading files to git
Command line: if I want to know what has changed in a file: git diff à will show you the changes to the file. So we know how to create a repository on our local machine but we want to create a repository on github and link them.
Go to github and click + for add new repository. Github suggests names for you… but you can create whatever name here you want.
Don’t check the README box when you create repository.
Push existing rep from command line
When it’s all set up type “git pull” in command line which if you’re working with other people will pull any changes to your local files. Makes sure you’re files are up to date.
Run “git push” anytime you make changes
Git add . --> adds everything in current directory
Clone someone elses code from github onto your own local machine – will create a local folder.
Don’t do this --> create a fork.
Original person will get a pull request and if they like they can merge the changes.
Gist is just where you can load files in but doesn’t have git behind it – doesn’t work in with the command line.
Click the fork button on the folder we want
Then copy the URL (HTTP clone URL)
Then go into command line into folder
“git clone https://github.com/sniquey/wdi6.git”
then change into the folder just created
git remote add upstream https://github.com/tarun-pacifica/wdi6
--> so that when tarun makes a change we can access it using git pull.
origin https://github.com/sniquey/wdi6.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/sniquey/wdi6.git (push)
upstream https://github.com/tarun-pacifica/wdi6 (fetch)
upstream https://github.com/tarun-pacifica/wdi6 (push)
wdi6 $ git pull origin master
git pull sFrom https://github.com/sniquey/wdi6
* branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
git pull origin master --> get any changes you have made
git pull upstream master --> get any changes the original creator makes
instructions found at bottom of page: https://github.com/sniquey/wdi6
n we are using this to add our homework files into the folder with our name and then put a push request through –
LUNCH TIME --> solving my confusion of classes vs objects with arguments etc.
Remove repository but keep on local: command line:
Rm –rf.git (f means don’t ask me any questions)
when do we use instance variables? Symbols? Normal variables?
Limitations with case that you can only do one thing because it says WHEN but for if you can check a few conditions validity…
If squiggliness > 0.75 || weird_mode == true
When (1..10).include? squiggliness
You can’t see things that are inside the function outside of the function.
How to get around this: $ but this isn’t very good.
Whatever’s the last line of code in the function can come into the outside world
So the last line of the code needs to be the variable on its own
title = make_headline(title)
loop- want to happen repeatedly
if/case – want to happen maybe
block – want to loop through some data / through a collection
block – loop through collection “each” as opposed to loop which does something times
:symbol à just like a string, piece of text that does things in a particularly memory efficient way.
Instance: when you have a specific thing
So a method is something you can use to do something to an array or an element of the array using .methodname
Arrayname.each.methodname
In RUBY everything has to happen through a method!
https://gist.github.com/sniquey/ada0e3d521b33f7a2712
GUEST SPEAKER: Lucy bine.
She was great to answer all of our questions for an hour. She gave a presentation to do with Github and how important it is to commit regularly (she does so at least 4 times a day). Most of our concerns were about what the job experience was like and what the expectations of knowledge are.
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