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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
- Basic understanding of files and directories
- A UNIX-like environment, such as:
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 terminal 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. 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.