Fenny: Workflows, 2 weeks

FennyWilriani commented 2 years ago

🥚 0. Local Development Without Git

Practice the foundational workflows of software development by learning to write Markdown locally on your own computer using Visual Studio Code (VSCode), the Command Line Interface (CLI), and NPM scripts to automate your code's quality (formatting, linting and spell checking).

[ ] 🥚 Folder Structures: You can explain how files and folders are stored in your computer and can find, open or create files in your computer without using the Command Line Interface.
🥚 Command Line Interface (CLI): In a Unix shell you can ...
- [x] open a new terminal window
- [x] navigate up and down directories using cd
- [x] list the contents of a directory using ls
- [x] view the contents of a file using cat
- [x] create new files using touch
- [x] create new folders using mkdir
[x] 🥚 Markdown: You can write a document in Markdown with no syntax mistakes that renders into a well-formatted document.
🥚 VSCode: You can complete these workflows in VScode, and can use keyboard shortcuts to complete them all:
- [x] Opening a repository in a new window
- [x] Opening the VSCode terminal
- [x] Adding a new file
- [x] Adding a new folder
- [x] Deleting a file
- [x] Deleting a folder
- [x] Previewing a Markdown File
- [x] Formatting a Markdown document
[x] 🥚 READMEs: You can write a README file that describes the project you are working on, why it's helpful, and how someone can use it.
🥚 NPM: You can use NPM commands to verify your code's quality, this includes ...
- [x] using npm install to install a project's dependencies
- [x] reading a package.json file to find which scripts are available for the project
- [x] use npm run <script> to execute an npm script
🥚 Formatting Code: You can use Prettier to make sure all the code in your project is well-formatted:
- [x] You can use the Prettier VSCode extension to format a document while you are writing it
- [x] You can use npm run format to format all of the documents in your project
- [x] You can use npm run format:check to make sure all files are well-formatted
🥚 Linting Code: You can ...
- [x] use npm run lint:md to check all Markdown files in your folder for linting mistakes
- [x] you can fix all linting mistakes reported by npm run lint:md
🥚 Spell Check: You can ...
- [x] use the Code Spell Checker VSCode extension to correct spelling mistakes in your Markdown documents while you are writing
- [x] use npm run spell-check to check the spelling in all the files of your project
- [x] update .cspell.json to add words that should be allowed in your project
🥚 File and Folder Naming Conventions: You can ...
- [x] identify and follow the naming conventions for the project you are working on.
- [x] use npm run lint:ls to check that all files and folders follow the project's naming conventions.
- [x] you can correct any file and folder names to make them match the project conventions.
[ ] 🐣 File Extensions: You can identify all of the languages covered at HYF and give the correct file extension. You don't need to know the languages, just recognize them.
[ ] 🐣 Touch Typing: You can write a Markdown file without looking at your keyboard to find any letters, numbers or special characters. (slowly is ok!)

🥚 1. Local Development With Git

Practice using Git to save and organize your development process. You will learn how you can use Git to go back to previous versions of your project, and to work on different changes in parallel.

🥚 Git: Using the CLI you can ...
- [x] Initialize a new git repository with git init
- [x] stage changes using git add <path>
- [x] commit changes using git commit -m <message>
- [x] display your repository's git history using git log
- [x] create a new branch using git branch <branch-name>
- [x] check out a branch using git checkout <branch-name>
- [x] create a new branch and check it out using git checkout -b <branch-name>
- [x] merge changes from one branch to another using git merge <branch-name>
- [x] return to a previous version of your project with git log and git checkout <commit-hash>
- [ ] stash and retrieve uncommitted changes with git stash and git pop
🥚 .gitignore: You can use a .gitignore file to describe which files you don't want included in your git history.
🥚 VSCode: You can ...
- [x] use the Git Graph extension to to visualize your repo's commit history
- [x] use the Git Lens extension to investigate your repository's commit history
- [x] explain how the file tree in VSCode can show you which files have uncommitted changes
[x] 🥚 Atomic Commits: You can save your development progress using small commits with clear and helpful message.
[ ] 🐣 Feature Branches: You can organize your development process using branches. You can create a new branch for each part of your project and merge those changes to main when they are finished.

🥚 1. Local/Remote Development

Learn how you can connect your local Git repositories with a GitHub repository to add more structure to your development process and to share your projects.

🥚 Licenses: You can ...
- [ ] explain why it's important to include a license for your code on GitHub
- [ ] choose a license for your projects that matches how you want others to use your code
[x] 🥚 GitHub SSH Key: You can connect your computer to your GitHub account using an SSH key, clone using the SSH link, and push/pull using your SSH connection.
🥚 GitHub Repositories: You can ...
- [x] create new repository on GitHub
- [x] write a description for your repository
- [x] turn on GitHub Pages
- [x] configure your repository to block pushing to main
- [x] configure your repository to block merging to main until Continuous Integration (CI) checks have passed
🥚 Git Remote/Local Connection: You can ...
- [x] clone a remote repository to your computer
- [x] initialize a new repository locally and connect it to an empty remote repository
- [x] push and pull changes between remote & local branches
[x] 🥚 Pull Requests: You can create a pull request between two branches in your repository and merge changes without causing any conflicts.
[x] 🥚 PR templates: You can use a PR template to add a checklist to all of your PRs so you are sure the code is great before merging to main.
[x] 🥚 Continuous Integration: You can use GitHub Actions to check your code's quality before merging a pull request to the main branch.
[ ] 🐣 Local/Remote Branching Workflow: You can use a branching workflow that keeps mistakes away from the main branch and prevents conflicts from happening in GitHub. For each contribution to the project you can ...
1. Check out a new local branch and write your code
2. Check out main on your local machine
3. Pull changes from remote main to local main
4. Merge changes locally from main to your new branch
  - Fix any conflicts on your new branch before pushing!
5. Format and lint your code
6. Push your new local branch to your remote repository
7. Open a Pull Request from the new branch to main
  - Go through the PR's checklist to make sure everything is correct
  - Make sure all CI checks pass!
8. Merge your new remote branch to main
  - You can delete the branch after it's merged if you want to

🐣 3. Remote Collaboration

Learn how to collaborate with a group on a single project hosted in a GitHub repository. Practice using GitHub's project management features to organize your group's tasks and to double-check your project's code quality.

[x] 🥚 Contributor Guidelines: Your group can define contributor guidelines that describes how everyone can add their work to the project.
[x] 🥚 Code of Conduct: Your group can write a code of conduct for your project that describes how everyone should communicate and what behavior is considered unproductive.
[x] 🥚 Repository Contributors: You can add group members as collaborators in a repository.
[x] 🥚 Issue Templates: Your group can use issue templates to make sure all issues are complete and relevant to the project. in your repository and merge changes without causing any conflicts.
[x] 🥚 Code Review: You can use the PR Template and CI checks to review another group member's code before merging it to main.
🐣 GitHub Project Management: You can ...
- [x] use issues to define tasks in a group project. Each issue should have a helpful title, complete description, and helpful labels.
- [x] use a Project Board to organize a project's issues
- [x] claim issues and track your progress with the project board
- [x] link a PR to your claimed issue
- [x] assign someone to review your PR
- [x] use GitHub code review features to discuss your code with your reviewer
[x] 🐣 Fixing Merge Conflicts: You can fix merge conflicts by selecting which change to keep, or deciding how to combine them. If a conflict occurs in a GitHub PR you can pull both branches and fixh the conflict locally.

🐥 4. Open Source Development

Explore the wider world of Open Source software by learning how communities of independent developers write and maintain the code we all rely on.

[ ] 🥚 Finding Issues: You can read through an open source project's issues and determine if there is one you can help with.
[ ] 🐣 Commenting in Issues: You can productively join the conversation in an open source projects' issues.
[ ] 🐥 Opening Issues: You can open a helpful issue in an open source repository, following their contributor guidelines and code of conduct.
[ ] 🐔 Contributing: You can create a fork of an open source project and open a PR that contributes something helpful and follows the Contributor Guidelines and Code of Conduct.

FennyWilriani commented 2 years ago

Week -1 Workflows

Check-In

I Need Help With:

A bit of assurance or evaluation that I have finished the deliveries checklist accordingly, where I have a mistake and how I can fix it
What went well?
- Cloning the class repo and making a branch for student Bio.
- Do a series of commands in Git as making a new branch, checkout, commit, push, fetch, pull, git stat, git log, etc.
- Fix an issue from my git branch using git push -f origin
- Use extensions in VSCode to help me with editing my markdown.
- Adding images from the internet.
What went less well?
- First several tries of doing PR I encounter an issue during the lint check, it happened over and over without understanding what really the issue was, and I was stuck the whole day. Only after a call with our coaches explaining the sequence of what to do regarding a series of npm checking then I am able to pass the lint check and continue with the PR.
- I don't know how to include or attach an image from a local computer to markdown, as it seems I can't find the right path to paste.
Lessons Learned

It is best to know/evaluate the sequence of what to do for the project, and just found out that my computer is not organize at all, need to do some house cleaning.
Sunday Prep Work
- Re-read the learning objectives and exercises on how to apply it.

danielhalasz commented 2 years ago

@FennyWilriani good that you have managed to solve your issues by following the order of running each command. Keep this good practice 🙂 as for attaching an image, first you should copy that file into the student-bios/assets folder and then you will have an easy task to figure out the path.

my only comment about your deliverable is to always add the correct label to it, so we can find it 🙂

FennyWilriani commented 2 years ago

Thank you for your feedback and advice @danielhalasz .. i will for sure apply it on the next project 😁

FennyWilriani commented 2 years ago

Week -2 Workflows

Check-In

I Need Help With:

No major problem yet, so far so good 😄
What went well?

Assignment for group went quiet good, in my opinion. few minor correction from Bermart that i already note for the future project. Still quiet enjoying the flow once you already know how to navigate around the git command. More to explore though.
What went less well?

I still need to learn the technicality of reviewing, merge the request, etc. As the owner of the project.
Lessons Learned
- Always pay attention to details.
- Dont copy an absolute path for image markdown.
Sunday Prep Work

Reading the next module, Agile Development, and reading more about HTML & CSS.

danielhalasz commented 2 years ago

@FennyWilriani you seem to be on the right track :) you will get to practice reviewing/merging in the upcoming months are gradually more complex code, do not worry :)

FennyWilriani commented 2 years ago

Me

What was not clear, where did you get stuck?

My bigger frustration was with linting when I did my bio as the individual projects, turns out I was just misunderstanding the instruction given as it was not very clear to me where and when I should do the npm install.

What was clear, what did you master?

Now I can get more confident with Github, from cloning the repo, navigating my way through CLI, editing the markdown in VSCode, pushing the changes until finishing the pull request of one project went well, I think I can adapt fast enough to the technicality of using the necessary software/saas for our project. 👏 👍

Where can you still use some help?

For this module, I was lucky enough to have teammates that are good at the details (where most of the time I can be lack of) and quite proactive, not to mention the great coaches that are there to help with the correction in finishing the project. I think what I need more is practicing as a reviewer and handling pull requests from teammates.

Where can you help others moving forwards?

Just in case other classmates need help with the technicality of how to use the tools we use in HYF and why we use them I can help explain it with my understanding and experience.

The Course

What can there be more of?

I can't really explain it in words but sometimes I can feel a little bit confused in understanding the deliverable instructions 😁 perhaps it's just me that has an issue in digesting the instruction, yet as a beginner, I think it would be really helpful if the instruction is elaborated more.

What can there be less of?

What material was most helpful (from HYF or elsewhere)?

Learn Git branching
First day on Github
w3schools.com
Free code camp

What HYF material was least helpful?

So far nothing is least helpful 💯

Any suggestions for future classes?

Perhaps more time spent with coaches really help especially when we are stuck with issues 😃

colevandersWands commented 2 years ago

I think it would be really helpful if the instruction is elaborated more.

@FennyWilriani thanks for the feedback. where would it help to elaborate on this, in the /guides of the class repo? We could fill out that document with more instructions and screenshots

danielhalasz commented 2 years ago

@FennyWilriani thanks for the retro! you can also always ask the coaches or me to help out, even through 1-1 short video calls, they are sometimes available and happy to help 🙂

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