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Command Line: Six Basic Command You Should Know

According to the article " Getting to Know Command Line ", the command line is the ultimate seat of power on your computer. It is simply a place where you type commands to the computer. Once we know the important commands, we can create files and run files and delete files so much faster than if we are using the mouse. How can we use the command line to interact with those directories and files? Firstly, we need to have a workspace. The course recommends us to use Goormide , which is an integrated development environment on the cloud. And it is developed by a Korean company. You can feel free to sign up and create your first cloud by following their introduction. Once you sign in the cloud, you can create your directory and files. The course introduces six useful Command to interact with directories and files. List/Change Directories Command LS LS stands for list, and it just shows us all the files and folders of the current folder. For example, in the te...

Intro to Backend: Is Browser The Only Place To Send HTTP Request?

Today,  I begin to learn the second part of web develop course: backend. Frontend is the stuff that we can see and interactive with, such as HTML, CSS, and JS. We can type our code, style our page, or write some function to make interaction. However, backend is everything else. For example, we type Target web address in the Internet Browser. As we hit "enter", there are a few steps to go through: 1. The HTTP request is sent to a particular server's IP address. 2. The server figures out what to send us 3. It sends a HTTP response back to us Those process we are hard to see, and it happens in less than one second. The instructor said that the browser is not the only place to send the HTTP request, and there are so many choices out there. In this learning course, we are going to use Postman App . Postman allows us to make HTTP requests and viewer responses. It is really for developers to understand how things are working or debug something. In the P...