COG Summer Workshop 2022
Intermediate
Git/Github Pages
06/01/2022
**Content creator:** Katie Jobson
**Content editor:** Haroon Popal
Description
This workshop aims to cover the basics of GitHub, and will give a tutorial on how to make a webpage with GitHub Pages.
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of bash scripting and Markdown.
- A picture of your lab logo (or your animal) in PNG format
Set Up (to do before the workshop)
- Make a GitHub account (link to do this here)
- For Windows: GitHub Desktop downloaded (link to do this here)
- You will also need to download git for Windows
- For Mac: Git Installer downloads (link to do this here)
- If you have homebrew installed, I highly recommend just typing ‘brew install git’ into your command line
Workshop Objectives
- Learn some of the basic utilities of GitHub
- Create your own website (like mine)!!
Workshop Materials
Outline
| Topic | Description | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Intro | Why Use GitHub? | 5 min |
| Part 1 | GitHub Basics | 15 min |
| Part 2 | GitHub Pages and Templates | 10 min |
| Part 3 | Create Your Website! | 30 min |
| Outro | Load Your Website | 5 min |
Other Resources
- COG 2021 Intro to git and GitHub by Elizabeth Beard
- This workshop is focused on have people manage repositories on their local computers for version control
- Software Carpetry
- Elizabeth DuPre’s Git Course
- Stephanie DeCross’s Visual Guide to GitHub
- Mozilla’s GitHub training
- Jenny Bryan’s Happy Git and GitHub for the useR
- GitHub’s Documentation