Since I started working with the command line, I definitely feel MUCH more comfortable with it. I feel like a hacker everytime I hit return and see the computer spit back neon green text, which makes using the command line quite fun, so hopefully that novelty doesn’t go away too quickly. I think I understand much more deeply now why we need to use the command line in certain situations. Previously, I was hung up on why one would elect to use the command line given the possibility to simply do the same tasks by pointing and clicking (I’m thinking mostly about searching directories and creating folders, etc.), but now that I’ve learned about how many more possibilities and capabilities there are on the command line, I feel far more comfortable. Learning how to push to GitHub and upload to obdurodon definitely helped me in grasping this.
GitHub
As far as GitHub goes, I think the project board will be an extremely useful tool for my group. We have not experimented too much with it, but it seems like a very interesting feature that I’m sure we will get a lot of use out of. It will help us not only to stay organized across all of our different machines, but will also help us to hold each other accountable and stay on the same page as we continue to make progress. The project board will constantly keep our short-term tasks and long-term goals directly in view, which I think will help our project immensely. The one feature that I’m still curious about and have been too nervous to meddle with is the “wiki” tab.
Command Line
Since I started working with the command line, I definitely feel MUCH more comfortable with it. I feel like a hacker everytime I hit return and see the computer spit back neon green text, which makes using the command line quite fun, so hopefully that novelty doesn’t go away too quickly. I think I understand much more deeply now why we need to use the command line in certain situations. Previously, I was hung up on why one would elect to use the command line given the possibility to simply do the same tasks by pointing and clicking (I’m thinking mostly about searching directories and creating folders, etc.), but now that I’ve learned about how many more possibilities and capabilities there are on the command line, I feel far more comfortable. Learning how to push to GitHub and upload to obdurodon definitely helped me in grasping this.
GitHub
As far as GitHub goes, I think the project board will be an extremely useful tool for my group. We have not experimented too much with it, but it seems like a very interesting feature that I’m sure we will get a lot of use out of. It will help us not only to stay organized across all of our different machines, but will also help us to hold each other accountable and stay on the same page as we continue to make progress. The project board will constantly keep our short-term tasks and long-term goals directly in view, which I think will help our project immensely. The one feature that I’m still curious about and have been too nervous to meddle with is the “wiki” tab.