#### What is a terminal?

A terminal is an interface where you can execute commands through text. We will use the terminal to transpile the SCSS file to CSS that then will be read by the browser. Besides that, we will need to know how to go from one folder to another, and it would be helpful to learn how to create a directory or a file from the terminal. We also need to install to choco or homebrew depending on whether you use Windows or Mac.

#### Basic commands

Every time you write a command to execute it you will have to use the enter key.

cd: To go from one directory to another you can use `cd /TO/YOUR_PATH/`.

touch: To create a file you can run `touch YOUR_FILE.extension`. Everything after `.` will be the file type like for example .html, .css, .scss, e.t.c.

mkdir: To create a directory you can execute `mkdir YOUR_FOLDER_NAME`.

#### Choco (Windows)

Open up cmd.exe and run this command to install it `@"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"`

#### Homebrew (MacOS)

Installing homebrew is really simple and you just need to run this command in your terminal `/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"`.