Terminal Adventure

This lab will explore one of the most important tools we'll use in this course: the Terminal. While it may seem complicated at first, it will quickly become your go-to tool for computer science class. The Terminal is what we'll use to navigate our filesystem, run code files, install software, and do all kinds of other tasks.

Terminal Adventure Lab

💻 Open a Terminal window and run mwc update. It's a good idea to run mwc update every time you start a new lab to make sure you have the latest and greatest.

💻 Open a new Terminal window and enter the commands below, one at a time. (Don't type the $.)

$ cd Desktop/making_with_code/mwc1/unit1/lab_terminal
$ poetry shell
$ ls
adventure
fancy_printing.py
poetry.lock
pyproject.toml
return_to_ship.py

return_to_ship.py is a runnable Python file (you can tell by the .py at the end). pyproject.toml and poetry.lock are a configuration files. You'll see them in every lab, and you may ignore them every time.

💻 Run return_to_ship.py to see what happens:

$ python return_to_ship.py
    Your adventure has only just begun. You are not yet ready to
    return to the ship. More secrets await you in the ocean's depths.
    Use `ls` to look around, and use `cd adventure` to start the
    adventure...

Your challenge is to see if you can find the treasure and bring it back to the ship, using just the Terminal.

💻 Begin by going into into the adventure directory and looking around:

$ cd adventure
$ ls
seafloor	sinking.txt

sinking.txt is a text file, so we can read it.

💻 Use the cat command to print out the contents of a file:

$ cat sinking.txt

Terminal Commands

Here are some Terminal commands which might come in handy on your adventure.