Learn how to create, and contribute to, Github projects!

ASSIGNMENT

You will learn how to create, share and contribute to GitHub projects. Along the way you will also learn about some key concepts like version control, what a repository is, forking, cloning, .gitignore files, and how adding, staging, and commiting will fit in to your workflow.

In the spirit of open source, we will be creating a shared recipe collection. Your assignment will be to create a GitHub repository and add a recipe to it.

You will have to create your own GitHub account and install Git on your computer. To help you do this I have included some links below.

DELIVERABLE

To get a feel for collaborating with a group, we are going be creating a cookbook! All you have to do is successfully fork the cookbook repo at github.com/gitforvisual/cookbook. Then clone it down to your local environment, create a new branch, add your recipie to the README.md file, and submit your branch as a pull request to the gitforvisual repo. BAM! Done.

RESOURCES

I will cover these steps in the video, but here are the links to the apps that you will need to complete the course.

GitHub

Go to github.com and set up your account. There is a free version which will be all you will need for this class.

Download and install Git:

For Mac: git-scm.com/download/mac

For Windows: git-scm.com/download/win

Anushka Chathuranga

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