Usual Start for Coding Activities

For pretty much every coding activity in this course, you need to begin the same way.
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Overview

People organize their files and information in different ways. Some folks haven’t adopted any organization strategies because they don’t know how, or haven’t previously had the need. Now’s the time, you got this!

Create a Directory

  1. in your dev directory create a subdirectory for the activity you’re beginning.
    • in case you end up needing to work with this directory on the command line, you may find it simpler if you exclude capital letters, spaces, and special characters from the subdirectory name.
  2. open your newly created subdirectory named for the activity you’re beginning in vscode.
    • NOTE: VSCode can become as complicated as you’re interested in making it. You can have like your whole hard drive open in the files sidebar of VSCode, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Even if you have other instances of vscode open for referencing past work or whatever, consider have 1 window of vscode in which you open only the top level directory of the current activity,