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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 - This is the Slack website and it showed me the 'quick guide' for Slack Shortcuts
  • What are three Slack shortcuts and/or features that will contribute to your productivity?
  1. The top thing that I learned was the command for 'quick shortcuts,' which is command+/ - This is a great way to remind myself of the shortcuts that are available in Slack.
  2. Another one that I could use a lot is the option+up arrow and option+down arrow. This switches in between a channel or a direct message.
  3. The last shortcut that could be useful to use is the command+shit+T to see all the threads in a channel.

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 is important in Git for a few reasons. The staging area is like the 'practice arena' before you start a video game. You can switch costumes, figure out what moves you'd like the character to have, and make sure that everything is 'set' before you go onto the program and 'commit' the things you want to happen. You can also test out things a little bit at a time in case something doesn't work the way you want it to.

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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katiescruggs commented May 11, 2019

Great job, @nicknist!

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