Meeting 1

Meeting 1 - 9/17/18

Checklist

• Get VSCode, Python3, and Git up and running
• Learn how to navigate with the command line interface
• Learn basics of python and how to run from the command line
• Learn how to use git commands
• Go over basics of programming with GPIO Pins

Required software

• VSCode
• Python 3
• Git

Useful software

• Fritzing

Navigating with the command line

Mac

# List folders and files in current directory
Alex-Macbook-Pro:~ alex$ ls
folder1   folder2   file1.c   file2.c

# Navigate to a sub-directory
Alex-Macbook-Pro:~ alex$ cd folder1 # Now we are in folder1

# Go up a directory
Alex-Macbook-Pro:folder1 alex$ cd .. # Now we are back in our starting directory

Windows

# List folders and files in current directory
C:\> dir
2018-09-17  11:59   <DIR>       .
2018-09-17  11:59   <DIR>       ..
2018-09-11  2:09     2,543,600  file1.c
2018-09-17  3:14        35,266  file2.c
2018-09-06  10:45   <DIR>       folder1
2018-08-23  7:15    <DIR>       folder2

# Navigate to a sub-directory
C:\> cd folder1 # Now we are in folder1

# Go up a directory
C:\folder1> cd .. # Now we are back in our starting directory

Using git

Test that git is installed

$ git --version
git version 2.14.1

Clone this repository

$ git clone https://github.com/GW-Robotics/2019-MATE-ROV/

Navigate into the repository

$ cd 2019-MATE-ROV

Committing a new file

$ git add file.txt
$ git commit -m "I added a file!"
$ git push

Committing changes to existing files

$ git commit -am "Made changes to files"
$ git push