File Structure

If you open your Terminal Activity and type the following (followed by pressing the 'return' button):

cd /

You will be placed in the top directory of your computer. If you then type:

ls -l

You will see something similar to this:

The above listing is what is known as the Sugar File Structure. Each name on the far right represents a directory, and each directory has a specific purpose. The lib directory, for example contains code libraries that the software on your system uses. For now you only need to be concerned with one directory: the home directory. This directory contains folders that have names corresponding to each user of the machine. If you log in as "adam" for example then you will be logged into a directory in the "home" directory with the same name as your username (i.e., "adam" in this example).

The other important thing to know is taht Sugar is mostly comprised of text files, so you can change almost every part of Sugar - how it looks and works - by just editing the appropriate text file.