Learning About Terminal Commands

xthegoodguy
Aug 27, 2017 · 2 min read

About a week ago, I started classes at a coding bootcamp named Actualize. Before I came to camp, I had a month or two worth of coding experience and I did most of my self-study in an online terminal.

The first day of class, we didn’t do much intensive coding. It was a day to get a feel for the course and to touch up on some terminal commands in our MacBooks. This was new to me, firstly, because I had been a PC user my whole life. Second, I had been using online terminals where it wasn’t as important to know commands to get around. Even though it was a foreign field for me, I got the gist of the basic commands pretty easily.

Terminal in MacBook

Terminal commands are crucial for the beginning coder to learn. They allow us to manipulate our computers to do things that might have been otherwise hard or tedious to do. Simple things like moving in and out of files and folders to more intermediate tasks like uploading code into the internet and playing Russian Roulette with your computers software(I wouldn’t recommend trying this out) are all possible through terminal.

One example it a command called “cd”. cd helps to move you from folder to folder around the files in your computer. Here is an example on how you would use it:

To use cd, First type “cd”, space, and “file name”. in the above example, I did “cd Daily_problems” and it brought me to my daily problems folder.

General commands for terminal are extremely important and easy to learn. I recommend that you take the time to get used to using them as they will help a great deal when you are coding. Happy coding!

— xthegoodguy

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