Git and GitHub

Housekeeping

• Ellie Forte: Guest Speaker for Friday afternoon

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1. Review

• Recommendations for organizing your code for this program
• Files, directories and naming conventions
• Navigating the file system

2. Introduction to Git

Materials

• Git Overview

3. First-time setup

Materials

• Set your identity
• Set up your SSH keys

4. Demo: Publish a webpage

Materials

• Publish a webpage with Git and GitHub Pages

5. Markdown overview

Materials

• Search - "github flavoured markdown"

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Lab Time

• If this is your first time using Git with your current system, you will need to follow these steps to set your username, email and excludes file.
• If you're having issues connecting with your password, you may have to set up your SSH keys
• Publish a webpage with Git and GitHub Pages
  • Deploy a website template: Repeat the above steps, except in Step 3:
    1. Search for a "free static website template" online.
    2. Download/clone the source files to your system.
    3. In Step 4: Drag and drop your downloaded files instead of creating a single index.html file.
    4. Proceed to Step 5.
• Complete your Markdown Code Journal Assignment.

Prep

Git tutorials and documentation

• Git & GitHub Crash Course For Beginners

  A great video introduction into the basics of Git and GitHub. We'll be referencing many Traversy Media videos in this course.

• Git docs - About Git

• W3Schools interactive tutorial

Markdown Journal

• Search - "github flavoured markdown"

  Markdown is a language that is often used for developer documentation. Your coding journal will be written in markdown!