I am new to coding and am trying to do the Become-a-Developer challenge I seen Quincy Larson posted on twitter. I am trying get the Relational Database Course working but I am sure I am doing it right. Here are the prerequisites and steps:
Prerequisites
- [Docker Engine]
- [VS Code] and the [Remote Containers] extension
- Git
How to Run a Project in Docker
Follow these steps to run the docker container and start a tutorial:
- Clone the RDB Alpha repo to your computer with
git clone https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/rdb-alpha
- Open a terminal, navigate to the
rdb-alpha
directory, and open VS Code withcode .
- In VS Code, open the command palette with
Ctrl / Cmd + Shift + P
. Then, enter and runRemote-Containers: Rebuild and Reopen in Container
- A new VS Code window will open and begin building the Docker image. It will take several minutes to build the first time
- Once the image is finished building, open the command palette again with
Ctrl / Cmd + Shift + P
, enter and runCodeRoad: Start
. The command won’t be available until the extension has finished installing in your container - In the CodeRoad window, click “Start New Tutorial”
- Click the
URL
tab and enter the URL of thetutorial.json
file for the project you want to start (ex: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freeCodeCamp/learn-bash-by-building-a-boilerplate/main/tutorial.json) Full list of available tutorials below. - Click the “Start” button to start the lessons
I have uninstall and reinstalled everything from scratch to just try to be sure it wasn’t something I was doing. I am still not sure. I’m on step 3 and when I type in Remote-Containers: Rebuild Container and Reopen in Container nothing comes up. I am pretty sure I did the first two steps right. I am new to all this so there is a chance I got something wrong. Step one I use the “git clone GitHub - freeCodeCamp/rdb-alpha” in the Git CMD to get it. I then use the dir rdb-alpha in both Git CMD and the windows CMD and use code to open Vs code to see if it made a difference but it didn’t.