Cool Computer Tricks For Amateur Nerds

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These ideas are for people heavily interested in computers but who know virtually nothing and want some place to start. I also have a YouTube channel with a Batch Tutorial Playlist if you want to check it out but please subscribe!

Command Prompt

I just want to start off by saying that I feel really sorry for anyone who didn't have the advantage of growing up in the DOS days [ Disk Operating System. ] I often wonder if nerds and psedo-nerds a like that grew up post 2008 are even as knowledgeable by default of the Command Prompt. It seems to be this sorta forgotten yet main-stream vessle to communicate directly with the Windows Kernel. The Command prompt is virtually DOS without the kernel.

Change Command Prompt Colors

Open up your command prompt and type color /? This will list available colors for your terminal. A very common one is 0a, which is a typical hacker like theme with black background and neon green text. It's pretty cool. Aqua on black is also pretty dope and then 5f I believe it is a really cool office feeling kinda theme I think. Again, you can be creative with this and it can add an extra sparkle of excitement to your exploration of your lust for technology, keyboards, computers, code, etc. It's a lot of fun to play around with. I even have some scripts that scroll source code across the screen, each time changing the font color, making it look like the computer is on mushrooms or something. I hesitate to share a lot of my source code but I'm sure you can figure it out on your own in due time if you study and practice..

Make Use Of The Startup Folder

I like to make full use of batch scripts. I create them and use them as my own syntax. An example, for easily navigating to the system startup folder, I create a batch file and dump "cd 'c:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\microsoft\windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup' >startup.bat" to it, using the quoted syntax in this sentence. Anything you add to this folder will load when the computer starts, or when the operating system boots up, under this user. There are other methods for launching things during startup but I will cover them in other blog post. Some people use their laptop and desktop as a personal diary so this is an easy way to load those .txt files as bootup. It's really useful and you can be very creative with this idea.

Batch Scripting

Batch scripting I do believe is a long lost art. It's still useful though and there really is no reason to not have fun with it. In today's age tho it has been long surpassed by such scripting languages as Powershell and Python, even VBS I think is newer than Batch. Anything that can be entered into the command prompt though can be made use of in a batch script. Just save the file as .bat and you're good to go! You don't have to enter the full filename in the command terminal to execute it, just type filename and hit enter, without the .bat. In this sense, you can essentially create your own commands. I like to use them to quickly and easily jump from folder to folder, in the event that there are really long directory path names to enter. EVen typing really fast it can still get very old very quickly. I've made a page on working with command prompt syntax.

Learn Python

Even if you choose not to go all the way with it, Python can be very fun and very useful. If you're a new computer nerd then you definitely want to learn this programming language. Please utilize the tools made available on my website here to help you. I also have a YouTube channel where I give what I consider very thorough tutorials on how to do different things in the programming language. I recommend surfing around this site again and look on the side menus there are links as well as under my blog post. I even host an open source project on SoureForge where I'm coding a Learn German app, that also goes both ways so German speakers can learn english! I'm going to make ones for other languages as well. You'll have to download it to use it sense they are raw .py files. I prefer python 2.7 but I prefer old school software and computers in general. I have a Python for beginners playlist on YouTube also.
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