# Week 01

Week: 9/1 to 9/6

## What I worked on

Mostly just getting the boring setup out of the way. GitHub, clone, commit, push, Pages. I already had [roycemy.github.io](https://roycemy.github.io) live so the "first deployed site" part felt like something I'd already done by vibe coding a Next site. Thursday we actually walked through what happens when you hit enter on a URL (DNS, request, status codes) and poked around in DevTools. Then we made the `oim3690` course repo from my laptop and shoved it up to GitHub, which is the opposite direction of Tuesday.

## What gave me trouble

I kept treating this like one project. It's not. `roycemy.github.io` is my personal site. `oim3690` is the class dump for exercises and these notes. By Thursday night the course repo was basically empty. No real `index.html`, no `logs/wk01.md`. I just assumed if one GitHub thing was working, the other one was too.

## Something new I picked up

A website is just a folder of files a server hands you. That's it. GitHub is the server for this class. If there's no extra path in the URL it looks for `index.html`. Also opened DevTools on babson.edu and the Network tab was unhinged. Like a hundred plus files, and if you have an ad blocker on the number changes. I always thought a "page" was one page.

## Working with AI this week

I'm used to prompting Cursor, getting a site, and moving on. Class was talking about agents vs chatbots and the part that actually stuck was: how far does it go before it comes back to you. This week I still used it like ChatGPT. Ask for a page. Get the page. Stop. Didn't make it hit an error and keep going.