Final Project Ideas and Mercurial

For my final project, I really want to create something that is useful to everyone. If I choose wisely, it may turn out well! I'm thinking of sewing a bag that will have solar panels built in, a battery charger, and a USB port to charge devices. There are a few considerations here, such as voltage and supply. The bag building would be fairly easy on my part, but I want the challenge of including conductive thread into the project if I can. I could use a variety of machines and who knows? I may come up with something completely different.

We are also asked to learn how to publish a website using Mercurial and Python. This was very scary sounding to a beginner such as myself. The first thing I learned that there were several avenues for going about it. I wanted to try something simple and straight forward so here is what I attempted:

-downloaded Python, Mercurial, Git, Github app,Kiln, Kiln Client

-created a bitbucket account

-created multiple repositories is various places, >FabAcademy15

-cloned file, All the tutorials out there are super confusing to a beginner!

And then I asked for help first things first, I had joined Kiln, a Git & Mercurial version tool, in my quest for completing the assignment, this turned out to be good. Having downloaded a ton of tutorials recommendations, I had various things that were unnecessary. Colten pointed out Windows Power Shell something I had no idea existed. On my previous campaign, I couldn't figure out where to type my instructions. I tried Python, Git, Kiln Client, TortiseHG, so many windows, so many things wrong! Ahhh! Once I was pointed in the right direction. I went back to the Kiln site for instructions on how to create and clone my repository. This turned out to be simple and painless. I created a repository called /span>Fab2015 and typed in the code: hg clone https://jnelson.kilnhg.com/Code/Repositories/Group/Fab2015. Then it asked for a password, which I typed in, assuming it was for Kiln's site. But my letters wouldn't show up! Colten pointed out that in certain programs, the password text won't appear. Geeez! No wonder I couldn't get very far on my own. How is a noob supposed to know these precious nuggets of information? Anways, Windows Power Shell accepted my password, and from there, I was able to create a clone using the code: hg commit. After this, I checked the folder destination to confirm it had worked. It had! Then I looked over the notepad that had popped up, typed in This is my first commit and then saved it. Overjoyed, I moved on by following the suggestion to add a file to the folder on my computer, this was easy. Then I typed in: hg push into Windows Power Shell. Success! /span>