Open your command line. In Windows, you will be using Git Bash, which I asked you to install before class. In OS X, you will be using the built-in program Terminal, or the downloaded program iTerm2. What does the prompt look like?
At the prompt, type echo $0 and press enter. echo is a program that prints information to the screen, and $0 is a variable representing the shell with which you are interacting, so the command should tell us which shell you are running. For OS X, you should see something like /bin/bash, and for Windows with Git Bash you should see something ending with /sh.exe.
Let's download some files so that we can all navigate the same environment:
- Type (or cut and paste) git clone https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/jrc_intro_programming.git and press enter.
- If you get any error messages, ask for help.