GitHub basics
Get familiar with the GitHub web browser interface, make a new repository and add files and folders.
2 hours
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Quiz
Give an example of a use of GitHub that you learnt about in this session??
Examples
- Collaboration as teams
- Share documentation
- Build websites
- Set up presentations
- Project management
- Continuous integration
- Add-on repositories for long term archiving with DOI
- Project tracking with version control
Describe how to start editing a file in GitHub?
- Press the pencil icon button.
What are the two files you need to create when making a new repository?
- README file.
- License file.
What is markdown script?
- It’s a human readable script that can be use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents.
- The syntax makes it render in a way that presents a nicely formatted document on GitHub or webpages.