Codam Coding College — Piscine Day 2

I talked to some more people today. I sat at the same station again because I really like the spot. I worked on the Shell00 exercises and got to number 6 or 7, which left me feeling very optimistic and hopeful.

I’m learning all of these commands for working with the terminal, and I’m finding that I barely even need to use the “Finder” on the mac to go to my documents and move files around. I just do it straight from my terminal, which is cool.

The exercises come with a bunch of submission directions, so I have to be on the lookout for that. For example, changing the user rights so the person doing the evaluation can read and execute.

There were 9 exercises total in the Shell00 cell.

Exercise 1 was creating a file so that when you concatenate the file from the terminal, it will display a certain character.

Exercise 2 was modifying user rights and timestamps of a file using the terminal.

Exercise 3 was similar to 2 but with more files, creating symbolic and hard links between files, and modifying the bytes of each file.

Exercise 4 was about creating Kerberos tickets (I am still not even sure what this is).

Exercise 5 was to store the command in a file that will list all files and directories in a certain order according to other characteristics specified in the directions.

Exercise 6 had to do with extracting certain information from your last few Git commits. I hadn’t made any commits by this time, so I had to commit some stuff just to do this assignment.

Exercise 7 had to do with Git ignore.

Exercise 8 was about patching files. I thought this was really cool and useful to see the differences between updated versions of files.

Exercise 9 had to do with using the command find to search and erase certain files.

Exercise 10 had to do again with using the command find to detect some files.

I don’t want to go into too much detail about it all, but I felt very accomplished today. I collaborated with some people on the exercises, and people were even coming to me and asking me for help on some exercises!