A Walk in the Park
We took a little detour from our scheduled lessons/activities to go through a bit of Bash script, which at this point we have done very little exploration into. Bash is a ‘Unix shell’ — a command-line interpreter — and ‘command language’ — meaning it can be used directly on your computer’s command line — and can read and execute commands from an input script.

It was an exceptionally beautiful morning (i.e., gorgeous sunshine coupled with minimal humidity — a rare combo for D.C. this time of year), so after our brief Bash session we took a little class break and went for a walk to McPherson Square.
History Note: McPherson Square is named after James Birdseye McPherson, who served as a General during the Civil War and was the second highest ranking Union officer killed during the war.Back in the classroom, we got a little more time to re-work our ‘to-do’ lists to navigate between the database and our view files using Sequelize. Thus far, this has included the introduction of new ‘seeder’ files, which basically input permanent information into our program so that the page isn’t blank when it initially renders. We’ve also included ‘migration’ and ‘config’ files, which allow us to set up and input our schema and configure the specifications of our database connections, respectively.
I still need to create a bit of code to allow for updates/deletes on existing items and also to create distinctions between the ‘complete’ and ‘incomplete’ list items. I’m planning on tackling the latter by triggering a change in the item’s object to toggle between ‘true’ and ‘false’ for the ‘complete’ status and then sorting those in two distinct arrays based on whether that status is true or false.
Here are the routes, migrations, and seeders that are in place so far:

Song of the Day: “Tear in Your Hand” by Tori Amos
