NORTH AMERICAN Octo Ninja

A Lightning Introduction to GitHub and the GitHub API for the Cal vs. Stanford BigHack 2013

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1. NORTH AMERICAN Octo Ninja The GitHub API
2. /usr/bin/whoami nuclearsandwich Steven! Ragnarök
3. GitHub The best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers.
4. GitHub There are 3.4M people collaborating right now across 6M repositories on GitHub.
5. The GitHub API Almost any action you can perform on GitHub.com has an API method for doing so programatically.
6. The GitHub API The GitHub API is used by developers to allow them to work better together.
7. Becoming an OctoNinja
8. My favorite API apps • hub
9. My favorite API apps • hub • TravisCI
10. My favorite API apps • hub • TravisCI • The GitHub Native Apps
11. Developer Documentation http://developer.github.com
12. Client Libraries http://developer.github.com/v3/libraries/ • Ruby • Clojure • Python • JavaScript • Objective-C
13. Client Libraries • C♯ • PHP • Haskell • Emacs Lisp
14. Getting Started The API uses custom vendor media types in JSON. To interact with it, I'm using a live HTTP console implemented in Ruby.
15. Getting a User
16. Getting a User
17. Getting Repositories
18. Getting Repositories
19. Getting Repositories
20. Getting Repositories
21. Analyze the Past
22. GitHub Archive Archives of GitHub.com activity available as gzip'd JSON or on Google BigQuery.
23. Thanks! Behind the Scenes X E L A TEX/ Beamer Rubygems: Cage