Current Assignment(s)

Assignments and projects for the active topic will be listed here.

Student Contract
Due: Please see recommended times.

Registration

To complete this area of the course, you’ll need to have registered for a free GitHub account. We will discuss GitHub.com more in the next weeks, but in the meantime, I would you like you to know that GitHub is a web service which is used for storing git repositories by developers. (Much of that statement is still likely jargon to you, and that’s okay - it will all come in time.)

Create a GitHub.com Account

Step 1: Visit GitHub.com and create a new user account.

NOTE: Please choose a username that you are comfortable with being part of your publicly-visible URL. For grading purposes, this should be a derivative of your name (make it easy on us, please). Your username will be publicly available and used often for many things throughout this course (ie. homework and projects) and your entire time on GitHub. Examples:

  • JustineEvansMT
  • JNEvans
  • J-Evans-Designer
  • Just-Justine-Evans
  • etc...
GitHub sign-up page

Step 2: Fix any problems the signup engine informs you about.

Step 3: Keep “unlimited public repositories for free” selected. Then select “continue."

Step 4: Go to the e-mail account you used during account creation and verify your e-mail address.

Step 5: After your account is created, select the avatar in the upper-right hand corner. This should produce a dropdown menu. From there select the “settings” option.

GitHub profile set-up

Step 6: Fill out your full name for us to track for grading purposes.

Step 6: Fill out your full name for us to track for grading purposes.

Step 7: From here feel free to fill in as much or little of the public profile information as you want.

NOTE: Uploading a profile picture is encouraged.