For Windows 8, go to the start screen, press “All Apps”, and scroll right until the “Windows System” folder shows up. Right click on the shortcut, press “More”, and press “Run as Administrator”. Pressing the dropdown menu should reveal a shortcut to open the Command Prompt application. Windows: On Windows 10, open the start menu and go to the shortcuts folder called “Windows System”.When you see your username followed by a dollar sign, you’re ready to start using command line. Again, this should open up an app with a black background.

This should open up an app with a black background. Select the application called terminal and press the return key. There are varying ways of accessing command line, depending on what operating system you use. No worries! It’s just a simple way to tell your computer what to do. If you’ve just started coding, you may have no idea what command line even is.