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Recently, I had occasion to complete some coding exercises. Since there was some exposition involved, I wanted to take advantage of some of the affordances for literate programming provided by org-mode in Emacs. I won’t get too much into the definition and benefits of literate programming here. My intent is to create a reference of some of my favorite org-mode commands that, in practice, I don’t get to use that often; but, would like to have collected in one spot. ...

Open up a terminal and type: $ cd /home/somedir $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer That’s it! Now your http server will start in port 8000. You will get the message: Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 … Now open a browser and type the following address: http://192.168.1.2:8000 You can also access it via: http://127.0.0.1:8000 If the directory has a file named index.html, that file will be served as the initial file. If there is no index.html, then the files in the directory will be listed. ...

0. Completed the entire “Web Fundamentals” Track on Codecademy 1. Completed the “Ruby in 100 Minutes” Tutorial 2. Completed the “Ruby” Track on Codecademy 3. Completed the “Ruby Primer” Course on RubyMonk 4. Completed Terminal Basics 5. Complete through Exercise 11 “Moving a File” of the “Learn Code the Hard Way” Book 6. Completed the JavaScript Track by Codecademy 7. Completed “Try jQuery” by CodeSchool 8. Completed all of “jQuery” by Codecademy This was the necessary prework ahead of MakerSquare. I’m looking forward to the day when I can comfortably and clearly explain everything that I have learned through these sites. For now, though, it’s lots of sketching, experimenting, doc reading, and staring thoughtfully at irb. ...