tildetown-handbook

This handbook aims to provide people with referenceable, educational material related to interactions with tilde.town.

This handbook is for people with less of a technical background who want to learn more about the interactions you can have while using tilde.town.

Table of contents

• Requirements

Requirements

• Basic understanding of files and directories
• A UNIX-like environment, such as:
  • Ubuntu
  • Linux Mint
  • Manjaro
  • Windows Subsystem for Linux
  • macOS
  • Homebrew
  • scoop.sh
  • Chocolatey
  • cmdr
  • Cygwin
  • PuTTY
  • and many more

Conventions used in this handbook

• Notes signify additional information.
• Tips signify alternative methods to procedures.
• Examples provide a visual reference of how a procedure would be carried out in the real world.
• Monospaced font signifies directory names, file names, file contents, and commands.

Getting started

One of tilde.town's goals is to transform the command line from a scary-looking technical tool into a tool for creating beautiful things.

Because of this, you will need to use your UNIX-like environment's command line interface. For me, it's a little icon on my desktop that looks like a blank, black screen. You'll be using this little, mysterious interface throughout this handbook.

Note: I'll be calling the command line a "terminal" from now on.

As a test for good measure, let's try running our first command. Try typing the following line into your terminal:

ls

That should "return" a several items. For me, it returned:

Desktop Downloads Documents Images Videos Music

If ls returned what seems to be the files or directories on your computer, then you have everything you need!

Note: "return" is technical jargon used to describe how something on a computer sends data somewhere. In this case, text is the data being sent to our screen.