Resources from the Switch On! GitHub Workshop
Getting started with GitHub
- Hello World, From GitHub Guides
- General GitHub Guides
- GitHub Pages -- Websites for you and your projects
- Repositories to Contribute To
Git basics
GitHub and your Career
- The Impact GitHub is Having on Your Software Career, Right Now…
- 5 reasons why Git based resume is awesome
- Using GitHub to Land a Job
Vocab Words used during the discussion:
- Git: a distributed version control system
- GitHub: social network on top of git; a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration.
- Commit: snapshot of saved changes; each commit has an associated commit message
- Branching: how you work on different versions of your repository at one time
- Fork: Create a new version of someone else’s project under your account, so you can modify it as you wish
- Clone: Take all of the files stored in a project on github and copy them over on to your computer
- Pull request: how you propose your changes and request that they be incorporated (merged)
- Repository: a single project (usually)
- Code Review: a through evaluation of a pull request for style, functionality, and efficiency, provided by a friend or colleague.