00 -- Brace Yourself -- Michael Staehling

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00 -- Brace Yourself... It's gonna be a bumpy ride.

Most of this assignment is getting your laptop ready for Day 1 by installing a few key pieces of software and registering for certain invaluable services like Github and Slack. Beyond that, you'll start to get familiar with Github and basic source control concepts that we'll be using throughout the class. These aren't specific to any language or toolkit; they're universal developer skills.

Requirements

Click on this file in Github and use the Raw button to see the unrendered Markdown text. If you copy and paste the text as is from the Tasks and Deliverables sections below into the Description of your issue, you should end up with a bunch of checkboxes, just like these, thanks to the way that Github interprets Markdown. As you complete tasks, check off the corresponding checkboxes and what your progress bar fill! Read Mastering Issues for more information on creating issues in Github.

Tasks:

• [X] Create a Github account
• [X] Find and star the class project
• [X] Read the Home page on the class wiki
• [X] Create a new WIP Issue
  • [X] Named 00 -- Brace Yourself -- YOUR NAME (where YOUR NAME is your name)
  • [X] With this checklist as the description
• [X] Edit your Github profile to provide:
  • [X] A picture, so I can recognize your face.
  • [X] Your full name, so I can recognize your name.
  • [X] A valid public email address, so I can contact you if I need to.
• [X] Install Homebrew on your Mac
  • [X] Open Terminal.app; Don't Panic.
  • [X] Install Homebrew and the brew command
  • [X] Read the Homebrew Wiki to learn more about Homebrew
• [X] Using the brew command, install the following packages:
  • [X] zsh
  • [X] git
  • [X] hub
  • [X] node
• [X] Add the output of the following commands as comments on your WIP Issue:
  • [X] which zsh && zsh --version
  • [X] which git && git --version
  • [X] which hub && hub --version
  • [X] which node && node --version
• [X] Install the following (bonus if you use brew):
  • [X] Google Chrome
  • [X] Dash
  • [X] Slack
  • [X] Atom
• [X] Complete the "Hello World" Github guide
  • [X] Add a link to your new Github repo as a comment on your WIP Issue
• [X] Create a new repository called TIY-Assignments
  • [X] Check the box to create an initial README.md file
  • [X] Select the CC0 -- "Creative Commons" license for your work
  • [X] Add a link to your TIY-Assignments repo as a comment on your WIP Issue
• [X] Complete the "Forking Projects" Github guide
  • [X] Add a link to your Fork-and-Spoon repo as a comment on your WIP Issue
• [X] Install Prezto
  • [X] Find and fork the Prezto project on Github; add a link as a comment on your WIP Issue
  • [X] Use the hub command to clone your fork into your home directory as .zprezto: hub clone prezto .zprezto
• [X] Watch The Long Run Videos on Delve.tv
  • [X] The Long Game, part 1
  • [X] The Long Game, part 2

    Deliverables:

• [X] WIP Issue
  • [X] named 00 -- Brace Yourself -- YOUR NAME
  • [X] with description matching Tasks
• [X] A Github Profile with:
  • [x] Intelligible picture of yourself
  • [X] Your full name
  • [X] A valid email address
• [X] Comments on your WIP Issue with output from
  • [X] which zsh && zsh --version
  • [X] which git && git --version
  • [X] which hub && hub --version
  • [X] which node && node --version
• [X] Comments on your WIP Issue with links to your repos for
  • [X] Hello-World
  • [X] TIY-Assignments
  • [X] Fork-and-Spoon
  • [X] prezto

    Extracurricular Activities

Regardless of how good you think you are at typing, a lot of the mistakes you make at first will be simple typographic errors. If you don't know how to touch type (i.e. without looking at the keyboard), start practicing now with http://www.keybr.com/. If you're fairly confident in your typing ability, try working through the JavaScript lessons on http://typing.io

As I recommended to you in your interviews, there are two books that I suggest you start reading. They're both avaialble in digital format on various devices, and they're both relatively easy reads:

• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt

[MStaehling]

zsh 5.0.7 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0)

v0.12.2 ----- (node version)

git version 2.3.2 (Apple Git-55)

git version 2.3.6 hub version 2.2.1

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https://github.com/MStaehling/hello-world.git

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https://github.com/MStaehling/TIY-assignments.git

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https://github.com/MStaehling/Spoon-Knife.git

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https://github.com/MStaehling/prezto.git