i am excited to create something meaningful for my life through the Fab Academy. i will complete a final project that is a heat-sensitive fan that circulates air for plants without the need of a human to turn it on.
this week, we set up our websites, and git repository. above is a screen capture of my first successful update and push into the archive! i realize that i learn best if i do something at least 3 times, and it helps to write down the steps or record after the second time of doing it successfully.
workflow:
1. document assignments in progress with notes and photos
2. make sure files are a reasonable size, create webpage
3. once page is ready, put in local repository with linked content also in the same folder
4. open terminal and navigate to local repository by using the command $cd fablabdetroit
5. then pull in any changes that have been made to assure everyone has matching info, $git pull; if conflict $git merge
5. navigate to my student folder directory $git status, it will let you know everything is good to go with green writing. if there is something that is untracked, it will be red, follow the commands to track $git add <filename>
6. once everything turns green, you will commit your changes to the repository with a message (a short note to self) using $git commit -m "TYPE a short message"
7. $git push and we're out here
i explored html as well as CSS code writing on www.w3schools.com, as i am very new to this. i found some templates as well got an understanding of how wordpress works. i ultimately decided to use adobe dreamweaver which allows me to write code as well as see a graphical representation at the same time as well as change from the visual perspective as well, which will help my documentation process flow smoothly since it is such an integral part of this course. i will upload pages to the git repository regularly before tuesday evening.
i plan to work diligently on each week's assignment as soon as it is given, so that we can locally review on mondays and share and learn from fellow fabbers in the lab. i also plan to link assignments either to solving present real-life issues and/or my final project (which is not necessarily my life's work but somehow related.