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Notes - Sun 12/20/20

12/20/20

Starting! My 2 week goal is to create the game Snake in Python. So I can kickstart my new game dev studio.

I got overwhelmed with options for editors and went with Visual Studio Code ("VS Code") which was recommended by the jwaz nerd chat. Mu will be my backup as I'm currently not sure how VSCode will work with the Pybadge or how to get a REPL working.

Below is an example code we were to use to teach us how to save a .py file in Sublime or another text editor.

print('hello world')

Jupyter Notebooks Notes

How to open files

I can open Jupyter notebooks through the actual Jupyter Lab program by running jupyter-lab in the CLI. That will open something up in the browser which I can navigate around in. Or I can open the notebooks up in VSCode which I like since the one app can open up my code, my own notebooks, and the notebooks from the class.

How to create new notebooks in VSCode

Ctrl+Shift+P then type in "Create new blank Jupyter notebook

Git Notes

Once I start getting more complicated projects, I'll want to keep backups or setup "source code management" (SCM) to track changes to my code. Git helps to do this and is seperate from Github. Git can be a local tool and I can back up my projects and code to my Nextcloud server if I want. Github is a tool that uses git but is onilne and I could share projects with others among other features.

As of 12/20/20. I haven't setup git yet. I should probably do so in the future.

Some helpful links:

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