Fri, September 10

CPNT 201 Day 1 - Pro tips for devs

Today's Padlet

Reminder for Tony: Hit record!
Program assignments page
Assignment 1: Three Deployed GitHub Pages Templates
- Due: Friday, September 17 @ 11:59pm
- 25% of final course mark

Submit the following for today's Daily Submission:

Potential website templates to be used for Assignment 1.
Don't bother ZIPing files, just submit links to the template online (i.e. themeforest, HTML5Up, etc)

Web development is just fancy typing.
- Take a typing course.
- Keep your hands on the "home row"
  - left index finger on F
  - right index finger on J
- When using the shift key (other other modifier), use the opposite hand.
  - Example: for a $
    - left hand on 4
    - right hand on shift
Learn your hotkeys and shortcuts
- Key Goal: don't take your hands off the keyboard
- Keyboard shortcuts can usually be found to the right of an application's menu options.
- Use your system shortcuts to switch applications
  - Windows: Alt + Tab
  - Mac: Command + Tab
Use keyboard shortcuts to open applications
- Windows: Windows key
- Mac: Command + spacebar and begin typing the name of the application.
Install a window manager such as Divvy Window Manager!

Recommended extensions for this program

Bash/zsh terminal (or similar) installed
- Windows users can use Git Bash, which is installed along with Git.
  - Binary Installer for Windows
- Mac and Linux system come with bash/zsh terminal by default.