Hey Maggie, thanks for the question! The $ is necessary because it is doing a command substitution. Basically what it does is it allows a command to be run and its output to be pasted back on the command line as arguments to another command. -c executes the command which downloads Homebrew. I got this command directly from https://brew.sh/, you can read their documentation there.

Thank you, fixed the typo. I'm a big fan of some extensions, I could probably write a whole article about the best VSCode extensions.

Anup Kumar Maurya Just posted my newest article on how I got my first dev job, https://www.blog.edmondhui.com/first-developer-job

New blog post coming right up! Thank you for the mention!

Thank you for the mention! Keep grinding, following your progress ❤️

Hopefully, this helps you the next time you forget a Git command. Thanks for reading!

Best of luck in your endeavors. Out of all the graduates in my cohort, currently, all of them have a job in tech 2 years after graduation. I hope this encourages you and helps you make a decision.

Email me at edmond.t.hui@gmail.com

I appreciate you, Andrew! Thank you for reading both my articles. I'm going to continue writing more articles focused on the beginner dev and do some tutorials as well. I hope you continue following my blogging journey.

In my opinion, you should have no problem finding job opportunities using the MERN stack in NY. When I was applying most jobs required at least some part of the MERN stack. I would also learn some TypeScript as well because of its growing popularity.