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Source file not compiled in CodeBlocks - C.

Kemigisa Lailah Grant — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 07:16:18 +0000

If you're someone like me that rarely reads instructions when installing an application then you might definitely meet with the problem I got today and I want to tell you, this might come in handy 👍 .

Initially, I've been a DevC++ application fan and if I was doing anything C i.e the CS50 courses, I would definitely use DevC++ for my C programs.
But today I got the error of Source file not compiled for the very first time, got all sweaty, and thanks to StackOverflow, I managed to get a solution which was installing CodeBlocks.

I just went right on to CodeBlocks, got the 1st .exe file I could find & installed(clicked Next, Next, finish) without reading through.

I open my C program files and on running:-

Source file not compiling dialog box

I came across a guide to installing and configuring CodeBlocks and I figured I really didn't install the setup right.

Win + R, type control, uninstall CodeBlocks, Restarted my PC
and now I was ready to follow the instructions in the above link but still, I didn't reach the part that Enables me to have a "GNU GCC Compiler".

I did the above step for over 4 times but still i got the same error 😞 .

Now I started playing with every option in the toolbar till I found a solution 👏 .

👉 This will only work if you have set your Environment variables like in the link in step 1 or can use these simple steps below:-

Win + E, file explore opens up
Go to This PC
Right-click This PC, click on properties
On your left, click Advanced system settings
click on Environment Variables
Under System variables, click Path then Edit...
Browse for the C:\Program Files\CodeBlocks\MinGW\bin according to which drive you installed the application.

Now that your Environment variables are set, open your CodeBlocks application to setup my "GNU GCC Compiler" as shown below:-

Next, look for Settings menu on the upper toolbar.

When you click on Settings, a dropdown menu with Environment,Editor...,Compiler...

Select the Compiler... menu

After the above step, a new box is opened with Global Compiler Settings with the selected compiler GNU GCC Compiler.

Click on Reset defaults

A confirmation box pops up, click Yes

Another re-confirmation box pops up, still click Yes

Popup box confirming the auto-detect installation of the GNU GCC Compiler showing the Environment Variable 👉 C:\Program Files\CodeBlocks\MinGW\bin

Now it is time to build and run your C program 👍 .

The program is displayed as shown below

Well, good job on solving that one, Happy Coding 😄 and Thanks for your time 😎 .

Online Editors (codesandbox is my best)

Kemigisa Lailah Grant — Fri, 29 May 2020 05:58:25 +0000

In this lockdown, I've committed to a lot of projects and I feel I have worked on none of them - sad right 😢!!!

Well, I redeemed myself in some voluntary online lessons I'm carrying on with a team and it has @chrosbie(her dev.to account, twitter handle) and other facilitators.
Last Saturday I led a class on Introduction to HTML and I believe it was a success(hopefully). Later in the week, I set some exercises for my students.

As any good teacher would be, I had to go through the assignments I gave my students and one of them was using online editors like codesandbox, codepen,Glitch,jsfiddle etc

So I went through the different online editors and so far, codesandbox is my best, WHY???
It is because of the following reasons:-

You can create any project be it a static page(HTML) / Vanilla js or in any framework, cool right 👍!!!
Can create a Github repo (Export to GitHub), yes, without leaving the site but doing it codesandbox itself.
Can import an existing GitHub repo.
Can still create Github pages, oh this is so cool 😊.
Then you can commit changes to your repo, create a pull request(PR).
Can go live - create a live session and share the link with your colleagues.
Can publish your project to Netlify - Oh yes, this is the super coolest 😃 feature for me.

Feel free to checkout my codesandbox projects on Lailah Grant , my GitHub repo on my W3 schools recap, my GitHub Page on my W3 schools recap

Go check codesandbox out, discover/explore cool features by yourself and it will be the best experience ever. 😀

Thanks for your time, stay safe, social distance and wash your hands

What happens when you add a wrong "remote origin URL" to your GitHub project?

Kemigisa Lailah Grant — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:02:10 +0000

I must mention, this just happened to me this evening on Tuesday 11th February 2020 and I spent about 15 minutes or so working on that.

A friend has been asking me for some code that was just locally on my PC, so after he persisted, I just realised all I could do is put it on Github for him to find.

For those that don't know how to push a local project to GitHub, hopefully, these following can help:-

Go to your GitHub account on your browser, login(if you aren't logged in).
Create a repository with the same name as that of your local project e.g cats
Open your terminal & browse to your project directory e.g

lailah@DESKTOP-VDD8TTR:/mnt/e/ikowapi$

then do the following commands

git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/lailahgrant/cats.git
git push -u origin master

Now back to our main question!!!
let's say
instead of the above, you end up doing the following,

git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/lailahgrant/cat
git push -u origin master

I know this can happen because it happened to me today and this is what I did :-

lailah@DESKTOP-VDD8TTR:/mnt/e/ikowapi$ git remote add origin https://github.com/lailahgrant/ikowap
lailah@DESKTOP-VDD8TTR:/mnt/e/ikowapi$ git push -u origin master
Username for 'https://github.com': lailahgrant
Password for 'https://lailahgrant@github.com':
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/lailahgrant/ikowap/' not found

Then after realising my mistake, I now tried to put the correct URL and I got the following errors:-

lailah@DESKTOP-VDD8TTR:/mnt/e/ikowapi$ git remote add origin https://github.com/lailahgrant/ikowapi.git
fatal: remote origin already exists.

At this point I was so desperate & I tried every solution in the --help but all in vain.

I finally got a solution from the popular saviour - Stack overflow and all I did was run the following:-

lailah@DESKTOP-VDD8TTR:/mnt/e/ikowapi$ git remote rm origin

The above command removed all the remote origin URLs I had put.

Now it was safe for me to run the other commands...

lailah@DESKTOP-VDD8TTR:/mnt/e/ikowapi$ git remote add origin https://github.com/lailahgrant/ikowapi.git
lailah@DESKTOP-VDD8TTR:/mnt/e/ikowapi$ git push -u origin master
Username for 'https://github.com': lailahgrant
Password for 'https://lailahgrant@github.com': 
Counting objects: 185, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (180/180), done.
Writing objects: 100% (185/185), 1005.56 KiB | 3.63 MiB/s, done.
Total 185 (delta 32), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (32/32), done.
To https://github.com/lailahgrant/ikowapi.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master
Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'.
lailah@DESKTOP-VDD8TTR:/mnt/e/ikowapi$

Hopefully you found this helpful, Thanks for reading through

Some of the Git commands you must know for open-source contribution.

Kemigisa Lailah Grant — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 06:47:38 +0000

For every developer out there, mostly the junior developers like me that want to improve their skills in this field of coding, should look more into open-source contributions & attending meetups at both local and remote level.

let's dive in:-
For a repository you want to contribute to (given that the issue is open and known to you, maybe - like after communicating to the mentor),

a) Fork the repository you want to contribute to.

You should be logged into GitHub with your account.

Find the GitHub repository with which you’d like to work.

Click the Fork button on the upper right-hand side of the repository’s page.

b) Clone the repository in your command line.

git clone <repo_url>

e.g.

git clone https://github.com/lailahgrant/reactWork.git

c) Change location(directory) into the cloned repo

cd reactWork

d)create a branch(where you will push your changes & not to the `master`) e.g

git checkout -b lailah

lailah in this context is your branch name(branch name can be any meaningful name).

In case you make changes on the project, talk to the person and make a pull request(PR).

e) To check which branch you are on (you must be on your branch), Run

git status

f) To add all files you have changed, Run

git add .

g) Commit your changed with a meaningful message, Run

git commit -m "meaningful message about your changes"

h) Now it is time to push your changes to your branch, Run

git push origin lailah

or

git push --set-upstream origin lailah

DEV Community: Kemigisa Lailah Grant

Source file not compiled in CodeBlocks - C.

Online Editors (codesandbox is my best)

What happens when you add a wrong "remote origin URL" to your GitHub project?

Some of the Git commands you must know for open-source contribution.

a) Fork the repository you want to contribute to.

b) Clone the repository in your command line.

e.g.

c) Change location(directory) into the cloned repo

d)create a branch(where you will push your changes & not to the `master`) e.g

`lailah` in this context is your branch name(branch name can be any meaningful name).

In case you make changes on the project, talk to the person and make a pull request(PR).

e) To check which branch you are on (you must be on your branch), Run

f) To add all files you have changed, Run

g) Commit your changed with a meaningful message, Run

h) Now it is time to push your changes to your branch, Run

or

Thanks for your time hopefully you found this article helpful.

DEV Community: Kemigisa Lailah Grant

Source file not compiled in CodeBlocks - C.

Online Editors (codesandbox is my best)

What happens when you add a wrong "remote origin URL" to your GitHub project?

Some of the Git commands you must know for open-source contribution.

a) Fork the repository you want to contribute to.

b) Clone the repository in your command line.

e.g.

c) Change location(directory) into the cloned repo

d)create a branch(where you will push your changes & not to the master) e.g

lailah in this context is your branch name(branch name can be any meaningful name).

In case you make changes on the project, talk to the person and make a pull request(PR).

e) To check which branch you are on (you must be on your branch), Run

f) To add all files you have changed, Run

g) Commit your changed with a meaningful message, Run

h) Now it is time to push your changes to your branch, Run

or

Thanks for your time hopefully you found this article helpful.

d)create a branch(where you will push your changes & not to the `master`) e.g

`lailah` in this context is your branch name(branch name can be any meaningful name).