Issues Forum and Notifications from GitHub.com

Issues Forum and Notifications Video

This class is heavily utilizing GitHub.com. Not only is this service where you will host your git repo's and live websites, but this content site lives in GitHub, and there is a "resources" repo for this site that contains:

• code examples for this course
• and an issue forum where you can ask each other for help.

By "watching" the course repository, you will get notifications about new issues as well as when new resources become available.

To watch the course repo:

1. Navigate to Examples Website. The issues forum for this site also links to the "Issues-Forum" tab above in the navbar.
2. In the upper right-hand corner, you should select both "watching" and "star".
3. The star and watching allow GitHub to email you about notifications and issues in the course repo.
4. When you have problems, please post them in the issues area.
5. If you get an email about a new issue, try to help the person out.

To create or respond to an issue, open the repo "Issues Forum".

There you can search open issues to try and:

• get yourself help
• or help a colleague

If no issue matches your problem, you can open a "New Issue". Creating a new issue allows you to describe your problem, thereby providing everyone in the class a message and hopefully helping them work on it.

NOTE: You should not repeat a comment that has already been added by anyone from your class. However, if you would like to further a comment already there, type in "@mention" the classmate/user and continue their discussion, which works well.

Create Repository Video

You want to create your repository if you don't have one.

1. Go to GitHub
2. Create an account by clicking Sign up for GitHub.
3. View your repositories.

GitHub Desktop Video

GitHub Desktop is a graphical interface to make a copy of your repository on your computer. Then, you can make changes to your work and then quickly post it back to your repository. Or if you heaven forbid something happens to your computer [trust me, it happens], then you have a backup.

1. Go to GitHub Desktop
2. Download your version and install it.
3. Go to your repository and click on the Code button.
4. Click on Open with GitHub Desktop.
5. Create a clone on your computer.
6. Remember to pull first always and then push.