Learn Enough Developer Tools to Be Dangerous: Command Line, Text Editor, and Git Version Control Essentials

Length: 368 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 2022-05-26
ISBN-10: 0137843453
ISBN-13: 9780137843459
Sales Rank: #562349 (See Top 100 Books)

All You Need to Know, and Nothing You Don’t, About Core Tools for Software Development

Three of the core tools needed for modern software development are the Unix command line, a text editor, and version control with Git. But you don’t need to learn everything about them, just how to use them efficiently to solve real problems. In
Learn Enough Developer Tools to Be Dangerous,
renowned instructor Michael Hartl teaches the specific concepts, skills, and approaches you need so you can learn to write apps, get hired, collaborate, and maybe even launch your own company.

Even if you’ve never used (or even heard of) these tools before, Hartl helps you quickly build technical sophistication and master the lore you need to succeed. Focused exercises help you internalize what matters, without wasting time on details pros don’t care about. Soon, it’ll be like you were born knowing this stuff–and you’ll be suddenly, seriously dangerous.

Learn enough about . . . Running a terminal, entering and editing commands, and using man pages Manipulating and inspecting files: from basic copying to finding patterns Organizing files with directories Learning Minimum Viable Vim Basic and advanced editing techniques with editors like Atom and VS Code Using the human-readable Markdown language for writing quick documentation Formatting source code and writing executable scripts Getting started with Git and GitHub Using key Git workflows: commit, push, branch, merge, and more Collaborating on Git projects and resolving code conflicts Setting up dev environments: macOS, Linux, Windows, and cloud Michael Hartl’s Learn Enough series includes books and video courses that focus on the most important parts of each subject, so you don’t have to learn everything to get started–you just have to learn enough to be dangerous and solve technical problems yourself.

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Cover Page
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
About the Author
Part I: Command Line
    Chapter 1. Basics
        1.1 Introduction
        1.2 Running a Terminal
        1.3 Our First Command
        1.4 Man Pages
        1.5 Editing the Line
        1.6 Cleaning Up
        1.7 Summary
    Chapter 2. Manipulating Files
        2.1 Redirecting and Appending
        2.2 Listing
        2.3 Renaming, Copying, Deleting
        2.4 Summary
    Chapter 3. Inspecting Files
        3.1 Downloading a File
        3.2 Making Heads and Tails of It
        3.3 Less Is More
        3.4 Grepping
        3.5 Summary
    Chapter 4. Directories
        4.1 Directory Structure
        4.2 Making Directories
        4.3 Navigating Directories
        4.4 Renaming, Copying, and Deleting Directories
        4.5 Summary
        4.6 Conclusion
Part II: Text Editor
    Chapter 5. Introduction to Text Editors
        5.1 Minimum Viable Vim
        5.2 Starting Vim
        5.3 Editing Small Files
        5.4 Saving and Quitting Files
        5.5 Deleting Content
        5.6 Editing Large Files
        5.7 Summary
    Chapter 6. Modern Text Editors
        6.1 Choosing a Text Editor
        6.2 Opening
        6.3 Moving
        6.4 Selecting Text
        6.5 Cut, Copy, Paste
        6.6 Deleting and Undoing
        6.7 Saving
        6.8 Finding and Replacing
        6.9 Summary
    Chapter 7. Advanced Text Editing
        7.1 Autocomplete and Tab Triggers
        7.2 Writing Source Code
        7.3 Writing an Executable Script
        7.4 Editing Projects
        7.5 Customization
        7.6 Summary
        7.7 Conclusion
Part III: Git
    Chapter 8. Getting Started
        8.1 Installation and Setup
        8.2 Initializing the Repo
        8.3 Our First Commit
        8.4 Viewing the Diff
        8.5 Adding an HTML Tag
        8.6 Adding HTML Structure
        8.7 Summary
    Chapter 9. Backing Up and Sharing
        9.1 Signing Up for GitHub
        9.2 Remote Repo
        9.3 Adding a README
        9.4 Summary
    Chapter 10. Intermediate Workflow
        10.1 Commit, Push, Repeat
        10.2 Ignoring Files
        10.3 Branching and Merging
        10.4 Recovering from Errors
        10.5 Summary
    Chapter 11. Collaborating
        11.1 Clone, Push, Pull
        11.2 Pulling and Merge Conflicts
        11.3 Pushing Branches
        11.4 A Surprise Bonus
        11.5 Summary
        11.6 Advanced Setup
        11.7 Conclusion
    Appendix: Development Environment
        A.1 Dev Environment Options
        A.2 Cloud IDE
        A.3 Native OS Setup
        A.4 Conclusion
Index
Code Snippets