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Codecademy

Learn the Command Line

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Overview

Discover the power of this simple yet essential text-based tool and increase your productivity as a developer.

### Why Learn the Command Line?
We use our mouse and fingers to click images of icons and access files, programs, and folders on our devices. However, this is just one way for us to communicate with computers.

The command line is a quick, powerful, text-based interface developers use to more effectively and efficiently communicate with computers to accomplish a wider set of tasks. Learning how to use it will allow you to discover all that your computer is capable of!

### Take-Away Skills:
By the end of the course, you will be able to navigate, access, and modify files and folders on your computer—all without a mouse!

Syllabus

  • Navigating the File System: Get up and running with the command line by navigating directories and files.
    • Article: Introduction to Command Line
    • Lesson: Navigation
    • Quiz: Navigation
    • Project: Bicycle World
    • Article: Command Line Interface Setup
  • Viewing and Changing the File System: Learn to manipulate directories and files from the command line.
    • Lesson: Manipulation
    • Quiz: Viewing and Changing the File System
    • Project: Artusi
  • Redirecting Input and Output: Ready to level up your Command Line skills? Learn to redirect input and output to and from files and programs.
    • Lesson: Redirection
    • Quiz: Redirecting Input and Output
    • Project: Athletica
  • Configuring the Environment: Learn to configure the environment using the command line. We will also introduce how to access and use the command line in Windows.
    • Informational: Configuring the Command Line Environment
    • Lesson: Environment
    • Quiz: Configuring the Environment
    • Project: Attica
    • Article: Lingua Franca - An Offline Project
    • Article: Windows Command Line

Taught by

Zoe Bachman

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4.6 rating at Codecademy based on 6609 ratings

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  • It teaches basic command line skills, which is great for beginner programmers, no matter what operating system they're running on. There is a lot of practice that makes it possible to master skills, I recommend completing all practical tasks.

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