Workshop Overview

Heard of Git and Github, but don’t know what they are? This workshop will help familiarize you with these tools for sharing and revising projects online. Git is a distributed revision control system that provides support for non-linear workflows – essentially it allows you to maintain a full repository of all of the changes and revisions you’ve made to a project. Github is an online Git repository hosting service, which provides an online graphical interface and other mobile and desktop integrations for utilizing Git.

Objective: to use Github as a tool to collaborate in the open source community and create a blog hosted on Git.

At the end of the workshop students will be able to:

• Define the purpose of Git and Github
• Discuss the uses of Github
• Develop and edit content on Github

Prerequisites

Completion of online Git tutorial (should know how to clone and commit)

• https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1
• http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/

What to Bring

Laptop with Git installed

Skills Taught

Git / Github