Renton Technical College CSI-248

This repository is a part of CSI-248 at Renton Technical College.

Guided Activity Part 1 Using the Command Line

We will complete this assignment together in class. If you are having problems with this assignment please refer to the lecture recording.

Clone the repository to your local machine. (Do not use OneDrive for assignments in this course!)
Make note of the folder where you cloned the repository.
After you have cloned this repository navigate to your local repository using the cd command.
Open the repository in Visual Studio Code by typing code ..
Open the terminal in Visual Studio Code by hitting ctrl + ` or cmd + ` on mac.
Create a new folder called ScreenShots
Take a screenshot of your Visual Studio Code and Terminal Window and save in it your Screenshots folder.
For Windows, type new-item hello.txt to create a new file. For Mac, type touch hello.txt
You will see this file inside of Visual Studio code.
Inside of the file type your name and save the file.
Go back to the terminal and type cat hello.txt.
Take a screenshot of the output and save the file inside of the screenshots folder.
Type git add . to stage all updated files.
Type git status to view all staged files.
Type git commit -m "Part 1 Complete".
Type git push to push the changes to GitHub.

Install NVM for your operating system. Windows users (https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows/releases/download/1.1.11/nvm-setup.exe) Mac Users: https://dev.to/ajeetraina/how-to-install-and-configure-nvm-on-mac-os-5fgi
Once NVM is installed type nvm at your terminal. You should see a list of commands.
Type nvm install latest - This will install the latest version of NodeJS on your machine.
Type nvm use latest, take a screenshot of the output and add to the screenshots folder.
With the latest version of NodeJS added you should now be able to run Nodel commands from the terminal.
Type node --version, take a screenshot of the output and add to the screenshots folder.
With node installed, lets try it out. For Windows, type new-item helloworld.js to create a new file. For Mac, type touch hellworld.js to create a new file.
Inside of that file in Visual Studio Code add console.log("Hello World"); to the file and save it.
Now from the terminal run node helloworld.js, Take a screenshot of the output and save to the screenshots folder.
Type git add . to stage all updated files.
Type git commit -m "Part 2 Complete".
Type git push to push the changes to GitHub.

From the terminal type npm init (this creates a new node project)
Name the package firstnodeproject.
You can simply hit enter for all of the additional options.
Notice that a package.json file is created.
package.json defines the entry point of the application as well as an dependencies the project may have.
Notice that helloworld.js is defined as main, or the entry point.
Lets create an index.js file.
For Windows, type new-item index.js. For Mac, type touch index.js.
Open index.js in Visual Studio code and add console.log("Node project running"); and save the file.
Now let's tell Node to run index.js when we start the project.
Open package.json and replace the entry under scripts "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1" with "start" : "node index.js".
Save the file.
Now run npm start from the terminal. You should see Node Project Running printed to the console.
Take a screenshot of the output and add to the screenshots folder.
Type git add . to stage all updated files.
Type git commit -m "Guided Activity 1 Complete".
Type git push.