HW 1 Guide A: GitHub Skills#
Every assignment in this course is a Git repository, and you submit it by pushing commits. Part A makes sure the basics are in place before the data work starts. GitHub Skills is GitHub’s own set of short, interactive tutorials. Each one runs inside a repository that you create from a template, and a bot checks each step and replies with the next one as you go.
The three tutorials#
Do these in order.
Introduction to GitHub: branches, commits, and pull requests, all in the browser.
Communicate using Markdown: the formatting used in READMEs, issues, pull requests, and the discussion board.
Introduction to Git: the same ideas from the command line, which is how you will work on every assignment.
Create each tutorial repository as public and in your own GitHub account, not in the course organization, so that your completed work can be checked.
Recording your work#
Open src/github_skills.py in your HW 1 repository. For each tutorial, set
its I_HAVE_COMPLETED_... flag to True and paste the URL of the repository
you completed it in. Each tutorial is one test in src/test_github_skills.py
and worth one point.
Further reading#
The Week 1 session covers cloning, committing, and pushing with HW 0. Later homeworks each add a few more GitHub Skills tutorials: reviewing pull requests and resolving merge conflicts in HW 2, and GitHub Actions in HW 4.