Introduction to Tools and Techniques in Computer Science

Contents:

Setup, writing structured text, and file management

Remote connections and command-line file management

Compiling and running code, version control

Advanced version control, project management

Advanced shell usage

Getting help and digital notebooks

Debugging (strategies and usage)

Command-line environment

Shell scripting

Build systems and dependency management

Containers, virtual machines, and “The Cloud ™”

Running your own Linux system

Tab completion

Franklin Bristow

Complete commands and filenames with tab completion.

Interacting with the command line requires a lot of typing (you can keep clicking on the terminal window, but seriously, that clicking and tapping is going to get really annoying).

Here’s a little tip to save you (some) typing: You can use the Tab key on your keyboard to complete a command or filename when you are typing.

Change back to your home directory (~), then start changing into the hello directory, but before you finish typing hello, press the Tab key on your keyboard.

cd ~ # go back to my user directory
cd he#TAB

Your shell (the thing you’re typing commands into) will try to automatically complete the name of the file. Neat 📸!