October 27th, 2012
October 27,2012
We started off the class by going over the events and information that we covered last Saturday. Ernie told us that his pet peeve was when people send him e-mails and do not write their name in the e-mail. Ernie then told us about the requirement of meeting out mentor at least once a month.
We then learned how to connect to the Shodor Network using our personal computers at home. A Mac user will: Download Cyberduck and Text Wrangler, there is also FileZilla. A PC user will: Download Putty, WinSCP, Notepad++. As I am a windows user, I took notes on the windows section:
- Open Putty
- In the host name/IP adress dialog box, put yourusername@login.shodor.org
- Make sure it is SSH
- You can also save this information under any name, and it will be stored on your computer
- It will then prompt a password
- Enter password
- The directory will show up
- cd public_html
- type: vim index.html
- Should open index.html
- (Mouse is useless in Command Line)
- If you want to edit:
- Hit i to go into "insert mode"
- Here you can make any changes that you want to the code
- Hit Esc to exit
- Hit Esc then write a :write or :w
- :q to exit
Or, if you want to use a GUI:
- Open WinSCP
- Click New
- Make sure it is SFTP server
- Server: login.shodor.org
- Type in your username and password
- Save server settings
- Pull files off the GUI
- Edit them how you want
- Drag files back into GUI
After this, we had the rest of the day to work on our sites. I changed my site completely, adding new css and adding my blogs to the actual site.