Kottans Frontend course

Remote Phase

1. Git and GitHub

(https://github.com/kottans/frontend/blob/master/tasks/git-intro.md)

Good basics of using Git and GitHub, but mostly nothing new for me, as I had an experience with Git before. But couple of things were quite new and might be useful:

git log --stat to see in the log which files were changed
git log --graph --oneline for the short log
use 'q' key to exit git log and git diff (instead of Ctrl + Z)
forking the repositories

2. Linux, Command Line, HTTP Tools

(https://github.com/kottans/frontend/blob/master/tasks/linux-cli-http.md)

Linux CLI, and HTTP

Command line complete status

Learn command line

I like such interactive courses were you are receiving the knowledges and you are practicing in the same time and you are remembering information by repeating simple things many times. I didn't expect to see in this course the new things, but I was surprised that I found some. I am not sure if I will use all of them often in future, but some of them seems to be pretty useful. So for me the information below was definetly new:

options for ls command, especially -t for sorting by date
using the mv command for renaming files
cat with >> to add content to existing file
the pipes | for combining different commands
command sort
command uniq to filter duplicated lines in the output
command sed for replacing strings in the output
command history to list the terminal history
command grep - it wasn't new at all for me, but the shown way of its using is interesting as well

HTTP

Both articles are very informative. This is a really well structured information about basics knowledge of how does the HTTP protocol works under the hood.

I liked the thesis

HTTP is an application layer protocol over TCP, which is over IP

which does explain a lot about communication between server and client.

Also it was nice to read in one place all the information about:

types of existing requests,
responses status codes,
types of request and response headers

The most interesting part of 2nd article was about basics of identification and authentication processes, but would be nice to dive deeper in this part.

3. Git for Team Collaboration

(https://github.com/kottans/frontend/blob/master/tasks/git-collaboration.md)

Git Collaboration

I liked an explanation what each git command do and how each git command works under the hood.
This is not about git, by the set of command mkdir test && cd $_ is very useful not to type 2 commands separately.
The git log -p to display the actual changes made to a file
It was interesting to read about Reset vs Revert as Reverting creates a new commit that reverts or undos a previous commit. Resetting, on the other hand, erases commits!
Usefull information about git fetch vs git pull. Git fetch is used to retrieve commits from a remote repository's branch but it does not automatically merge the local branch with the remote tracking branch after those commits have been received. And git pull is doing fetch and then merge.
Never used git log --grep to filter the commits by the commit message

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