Intro to Git & GitHub Workshop

This workshop will cover Git, the open source version control system for storing your programs.

The following skills will be covered:

- Introduce Git & GitHub; explain difference between the two
- Introduce GitHub website; review settings and options on GitHub account
- Create a repo on GitHub website
- Set up a repo on GitHub and invite collaborators
- Fork and clone user or organization repo
- Use branches on GitHub (* time permitting)
- Undo changes - revert commits (* time permitting)

REQUIREMENTS / PREPARATION:

1. GitHub account

Please have a GitHub account https://github.com and save your user id and password in an easily accessible place.

2. Unix terminal

Attendees should have access to a Unix terminal (via Mac or Ubuntu).

Mac users:
https://git-scm.com/downloads

Windows users: Install Git Bash
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-bash

3. Git installed

Ensure that Git is installed by typing:

$ git --version

OPTIONAL (helpful, but not required):

1) Terminal Editor (check that you have one of the following installed):
Vim --version
Emacs --version
Nano --version

2) If not Terminal Editor, then one of the Graphical Editors:
Sublime
Atom
Spyder
PyCharm
Rodeo

3) Some familiarity with Markdown will be helpful, but it is not required