Beginner learns Linux and Git commands ahead of CloudHer mentorship session

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A participant in the CloudHer mentorship program self-studied Linux and Git commands before her Week 4 meeting with mentor Endah Bongo. She practiced foundational Linux navigation commands such as pwd, ls, and cd, then moved on to file management and understanding Unix permissions. For Git, she worked through the full workflow — from configuring her identity and initialising a repository to staging, committing, branching, merging, and pushing code to GitHub. The hands-on, self-directed practice session helped her arrive at the meeting confident and able to explain the complete modify-add-commit-push cycle. She plans to build on this foundation by exploring shell scripting and task automation next.

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