All right.
So now that we have our workspace set up the next thing we want to do is take a really quick tour.
Two to three minutes of how the interface for Cloud 9 works.
So once you created the workspace you should see a window that looks something like this.
I did increase my font size to make it a little easier for you to read.
So yours will probably look a little nicer but otherwise they should look the same.
Before we actually dive into the interface I want to emphasize what actually happened when you created
a workspace because I think it's pretty cool.
I mentioned that cloud nine is a cloud based developer environment.
When you created that workspace cloud 9 has a computer somewhere a server that may do a little bit of
space just for your little developer environment and basically made you a section on a computer that's
private for you this only holds your stuff your files.
And right now there are only two files in there which we can see over here.
Hello world that HMO and read me M.D..
Those are both just automatically created.
The HMO file was created because we chose that age html template if we had chosen a python.
Or let's say we chose a ruby template we would have a hello world.
RB file but that doesn't really matter because we're going to get rid of both of them anyway.
But the idea is that there is space actually on a computer somewhere that is running all of this.
It has these files on it.
When we install my sequel and get it running it's not actually going to be running on your machine or
in this case on my machine.
It will be running on cloud 9 machine.
And this is just a browser interface for me to talk to that machine which is pretty amazing when you
think about it.
So that's enough of that.
Now let's take a look at the interface.
We have three main sections.
The first one is what I'll call the file tree.
It's basically a visual representation of the contents of your workspace.
So as we already talked about there's two files there right now as we create new files and directories
or folders in this course you'll see them pop up over here.
The next area I'll call your attention to is this middle area I'll call it the text editor.
So if we open up one of these files like read me that M.D. which is what is currently open I double
click that it opens up as you can see here read me dot M.D..
Don't worry if you've never heard of Mark down that's not super important at this point but I can now
go in and edit things
and if I hit save on Mac it's command us on a PC control us so I can switch files to the aged him file
by double clicking and now opens up a tab here.
I can go back to the other file I'll close out of it now.
You don't need to know each time of course for this for this class.
But the point here is that we have files we can double click and we can see them over here.
The last thing that I'll show you before we move on to this bottom section is how to make a new folder
or a new file.
So what you can do is right click on this space right here and you can scroll down and find new file
or new folder.
So let's make a new folder and I'll just call it testing then I can right click again and go to new
file.
You can also do file new file just like you are working in a real text editor natively on her computer.
But I tend to do this here new file and then I can call this whatever I'll just say hello and I'll make
a text file.
Now to open it I can double click put whatever I want in there.
Now if I switch you see that little dot.
That means it's not saved.
You can go back and save it and close out.
And now we have three files over here as well as a new folder.
So that's pretty much all there is to the text editor area.
And we'll be working with this later on when we're creating sequel files that were writing our code
and then running all at once.
Then the last section that I'll expand on here is the shell or the terminal if you're familiar with
any sort of bash shell.
This is exactly a up.
And if you're not don't panic I'll throw out that little dumb panic thing again.
You don't have to know that for this course because of the way cloud 9 works.
We have this visual interface for navigating our folders and files.
But it definitely is not a bad idea to learn some basic terminal commands.
I'll include a link to some of my favorite resources for learning that if you'd like.
But again you do not have to know how to navigate the terminal to do this course but just to show you
that this is a full fledged terminal I can do things like us to list all the files in my current directory
and you can see I have read me hello world.
Him now and testing.
I can change directory into testing
and now if I type LS I get hello that TXI.
So I'm inside this directory and I can do things like print working directory.
Now we will be running commands from this terminal mainly to initialize my AS WELL AS WELL AS worked
with the my.
Well interactive show.
You know a bunch of other things but those will be my S Q L specific command not the general Basche
commands.
So that's pretty much all there is to the interface at this point.
We have the file tree where we can double click to view files over in the editor.
We can make changes there.
And then we also have the terminal down here which will be working with quite a bit as well.