WEEK: 1

GitHub.com

This class is heavily utilizing GitHub.com. This is where you will host all of your weekly assignments and posting your link on canvas.

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 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.
    • Install for Mac:
    • Install for PC
  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.

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