Learn to use Git and Github

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1. + Learn to use Git, Github and the Terminal. While we wait to start, do these 2 things please: Download & Install Git http://git-scm.com/download Signup for Github https://github.com/signup/free If you have Xcode installed you can skip this step. There will be no icon for Git
2. Today: What is Git What is Github Why you should care Talking to your computer How to use Git & Github Advanced Usage
3. What is Git (big picture version) Git is a program that saves snapshots of the les in a folder. A more powerful program akin to Versions or Time Machine.
4. What is Git (more speci c) Git takes a snapshot when you tell it to.
5. Commit Lingo What Git calls each “snapshot.”
6. What is Git (more speci c) Git provides powerful tools for combining and switching between these snapshots.
7. Repository Lingo A folder that is being tracked with Git. Everything in the folder, and it’s history.
8. What is Github Github is a website where you can share and collaborate on repositories you are tracking with Git.
9. Git is a program on your computer Github is a website
10. Git & Github can talk to each other but they are different separate things.
11. Git is a program on your computer Github is a website
12. Why? My system isn’t broken. I’m in perfect control of my versions.
13. No you aren’t.
14. Still not convinced?
15. Still not convinced?
16. Ok, ne, I’ll learn Git. How do I use Git?
17. By talking to your computer
18. Not this way.
19. Something like this.
20. Terminal Demo
21. $ ls $ cd ~/Desktop $ mkdir new_project $ cd new_project $ touch hello.txt $ echo “Hello” >> hello.txt $ cat hello.txt $ pwd
22. Finally, Git.
23. 1. Do work 2. Save changes (commit) 3. Share changes (push) 4. Get changes (pull)
24. # Open Processing, save project $ cd ~/Desktop/demo $ git init $ git status $ git add demo.pde $ git commit -m “First commit”
25. Explain what you did. It’s part of the documentation process. Commit messages are you friend.
27. Make a Github repository
28. Put your Git repository on Github