Track-Changes

This is a workshop originally developed for the Houston Hackathon in Partnership with Sketch City and Girls Coding Club.

We want to introduce people to Git and Github in an accessible and easy-to-understand way.

Planning Considerations

This is a workshop for

• programmers who want to learn more about version control.
• non-programmers who want to collaborate on projects and help track changes on their own projects.

By the end of the workshop, everyone should be able to:

• Make a local project folder on his or her own computer, convert the folder a repository to share on github.com.
• understand enough about the Git and Github workflow to begin collaborating with others on github.com.

Structure

We planned this workshop to be delivered over 3-4 hours.

Intro

• Version Control systems...

  • Essay ex...

  • Both, GitLab and GitHub are web-based Git repositories..

    • Just another name for a different data structure that helps you record history of changes in your files and also who made them...

  • Github/ Gitlab provide a web interface that works with Git...

  • GitHub, Gitlab, Git...what?

  Differences	GitLab	GitHub
  Released	September 2011	April 2008
  Number of users	100 M (March 2017)	26 MM (March 2017)
  Free plans (Community Editions)	Unlimited public and private repositories	Free for public repositories only
  Paid plans (Enterprise Editions)	Starts at $49 per user per year	Starts at $250 per user per year

  • Github usual workflow

  

  • How can we access it?
    • Kenia's GitHub website
    • CLI
    • GitHub Desktop

Individual Experience

• what is a "repository"
• diff
• commit
• "publish"
• local folder -> github repo on the interwebs

Collaboration Experience

Wrap Up

• different git workflows Let's work with command line!

• Github alternatives How different is GitLab? Kenia's GitLab website

Set up

Students should

1. Sign up for a GitHub account.

2. Install GitHub Desktop.

Instructors should

1. Print handouts.

Additional Resources:

• Atlassian's Getting Git Right Guide
• The Coding Train Git and Github for Poets Youtube Series
• GitHub Education for Students
• GitHub Desktop Guide