Jump start: Lesson 4
Note: You can postpone this lesson until you have a Mac computer
- Become familiar with navigating the MacOSX environment
- Understand why and how to utilize multiple tabs, application windows, and desktops
- Start using application shortcuts and hotkeys
- Effectively find applications, folders, and files
- Effectively manage open applications
Most software developers rely heavily on their keyboards and less so on their pointing devices (e.g., mouse, trackpad). This lesson will help you get comfortable using your keyboard to navigate in MaxOSX.
Fill in the table below with the matching MacOSX shortcuts, if you don't know them use an internet search to find them.
| What the command does | Mac shortcut |
|---|---|
| Copy | |
| Paste | |
| Cut | |
| Save | |
| Select | |
| Undo | |
| Redo | |
| Find | |
| Switch app | |
| Open spotlight search | |
| Force quit | |
| Full-screen screen shot | |
| User-defined region screen shot |
| Interface component | Overview |
|---|---|
| Dock | The Dock is the strip of apps at the bottom of the screen. You can change its size and location by going to Preference > Dock. Spend some time determining the best size and location for you. You can add applications to your dock by dragging them onto it, and you can expose options for applications in your dock by right-clicking on them. |
| Finder | Finder is an application that lets you visually navigate your files and folders. |
| Menu bar | The Menu bar at the top of MacOSX is context sensitive, and will change based on the application you have in focus. |
| Mission control | Allows you to see all your open apps at once, there are many ways to launch this application, search the internet for the one that works best for you. |
| Mouse & Trackpad | Spend some time in your system preferences customizing these to your work style. |
- multi-finger swipe
- multiple desktops
- hot corners
- Double clicking a menu bar will force the window to take up your entire screen size
- window snapping Cinch, Divvy, Slate, Spectacle
- Use Spotlight to open the finder
- What does tab do in finder?
- What does shift + tab do in finder?
- Do the following commands using only the keyboard:
- Open your web browser
- Navigate to adadevelopersacademy.org
- Keeping the Ada browser tab open, open a new tab
- Navigate to google.com
- Navigate back to the Ada tab
- Refresh the web page
- Quit out of the web browser (don't just close the tabs, close the whole application)
- Use Spotlight to open Finder, web browser, system preferences and then switch between all three applications