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In this video we're going to create a
workspace that we can use to store all

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of the files that we create for our
project one of the things that separates

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a good developer from a great developer
is organization I like to keep organized

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by keeping all of my source code that
I'm working with in a central location

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as a developer you'll most likely be
working with many different projects and

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it really helps if you can keep all of
these projects in a single location on

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your machine this comes in really
useful if you ever need to move machine

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or you ever need to backup your source
code because you can just copy one

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directory to an external disk so let's
go ahead and create a workspace

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directory for our course.

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I'm on a Mac so I'm going open up the Finder window and

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then I'm going to go to go go to folder and
enter the tilde

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character this will take you to the home
directory for the currently logged in

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user
if you're using Windows then you should

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be able to do a similar thing using the
Windows Explorer

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I always create the

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directory in my home folder because this
makes it easy when navigating with the

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terminal or the command prompt which
we'll show you a bit later in the course

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normally I call the directory workspace
but for the purpose of this course I'm

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going to put it in a folder called
courses

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once you've created your folder

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open it up and then create a new
subfolder that we're going to use for

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our project the projects going to be
called profiles - rest - API

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it helps if

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you don't include any spaces or special
characters in the directory name because

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this will make it a lot easier when
you're navigating with the terminal or

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the command prompt which we're going to
show you in a minute

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once you've created your directory for
our project let's go ahead and open up

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the atom editor and I'll show you how to
add this project to the atom editor

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workspace

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if this is the first time
you're opening up atom you'll see this

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welcome screen you can close off these
tabs and then you should just see a

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blank entry text page like this

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you can add working directories to Atom by

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clicking file add project folder then
navigate to the newly created courses

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directory and then the profiles rest api
directory that we created inside the

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workspace and click open

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this will open the project in atom editor this comes in

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really useful because you can add
multiple different projects that you're

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working on at the same time to atom and
it makes it a lot easier to work with

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many projects at the same time

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okay so
now that we know how to open the project

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in atom editor I'm going to show you how
to navigate to our projects using the

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terminal or if you're on Windows you're
going to be using the git bash so since

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we're on a Mac we're going to load up
the terminal which you can get to if you

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don't have it in a shortcut you can
either get to it in the spotlight by typing

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terminal or you can load up in the
launcher here Launchpad and type

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terminal there

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okay once you have the
terminal open it should by default open

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to the home directory you can see this
by this tilde character here if you're

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on Windows then click on start and
open up the git bash and you should see

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something similar to this

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if you want to
make sure that you're on the home

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directory then you can enter cd which
stands for change directory and then the

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tilde character and this will take you to
the home directory

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alright so we created

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a new folder called courses in our home
directory so let's type the LS command

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which stands for list and this should
list all the directories that are in the

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current directory that we are on which
is our home directory you can see that

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we have our courses directory here so we
can switch into the courses directory

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by typing CD again that stands
for change directory and then courses

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forward slash

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got to spell courses right
and remember that it is usually case

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sensitive so make sure that you use a
capital C for courses

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alright once

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you're in the courses directory you can
type LS and this will list all of the

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sub folders in courses

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you can see that
we have the profiles REST API folder

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here so again we can type cd profiles REST API hit

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enter and then our terminal will change
into the profiles REST API folder if you

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If you ever want to know which folder you're in
you can type PWD which will output the

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current location so you can see I'm in
users slash Mark Winterbottom

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which is the home directory for the user
slash courses slash profiles REST API

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If you ever need to go back to the previous
directory you can type CD dot dot and

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hit enter and this will take you back to
the previous directory that you were in

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ok so that's how you navigate using the
terminal and open up the project in atom