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Calendar Event or Task? Choose by What Must Happen
Decide whether a class, deadline, study session, or assignment belongs on a calendar, in a task list, or in both without duplicating the whole plan.
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Automate Due-Date Reminders Without Bloated Apps
Turn a verified course milestone list into a small, reviewable reminder flow without duplicating dates across several productivity tools.
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Terminal-First, Text-First, Reusable-by-Default
Use three practical principles to make student computing work visible, portable, and easier to repeat.
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What Is Plain Text, and Why Should a Student Care?
Recognize plain-text files and understand when their portability, searchability, and simple structure help student work.
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Source Files and Generated Files Are Not the Same
Learn which project files must be preserved, which can be regenerated, and how that distinction guides Git and backup decisions.
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Pipes and Redirection: The Composable Power of the CLI
Understand standard input, output, error, pipes, and safe output redirection before learning shell-specific syntax.
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Should This Be a Note, Checklist, Script, or Skill?
Choose the smallest reuse level that fits understanding, human judgment, deterministic work, project guidance, or agentic interpretation.
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Automate Deterministic Work with Code
Replace repeated prompts with tested code when inputs, outputs, operations, and failures can be defined explicitly.
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Automation Is the Last Step, Not the First
Turn a stable manual workflow into documented, verified automation with monitoring and a recovery path.