Git/Github workshop I: get started

Please come on time(7pm sharp), so you won't be left behind.

Speaker Bio:

There will be 7 instructors for this workshop. Each of us will assist a group of attendants to go through the steps.

Vivian Zhang is organizer of NYC Open Data meetup. She is CTO of a data analytic consulting firm---SupStat Inc.

Amanda Himmelstoss is a recent graduate of the Flatiron School; she works at Blopboard, a social polling platform.

Michael Polycarpou is a ruby on rails developer in one of the startup in NYC. He previously studied EE and love work on hardware design.

David Bella is a ruby on rails developer at XO group. He got Computer Science bachelor degree earlier.

Manley Brendan is working for Running through as a web developer. He got bachelor degree from English major.

Ian Miller is a Ruby developer based in NYC, and has a background in renewable energy project development in developing economies.

Ivan Brennan is a Ruby developer and musician interested in open source collaboration.

Ian and Ivan are looking for Ruby on Rails developer roles. If you have open positions, please shoot a email to vivian.zhang@supstat.com or let them know it on site. Thanks!

Agenda:

We will walk you through the basic concept of github, then everyone will be assigned a group and your own TA and learn

1. how to download other people's repositories

2.how to push your own codes to your own repositories.

We will cover five main git commands:

git clone,git init, git add, git commit, git push

Workshop material:

Slides and codes: http://prezi.com/tnuqs7bpkx3p/github-workshop/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

https://github.com/irmiller22/git_workshop/blob/master/git-resources.md

https://github.com/irmiller22/git_workshop/blob/master/git_workshop.md

Preparation:

Please install your git before you come and try to install it.

http://git-scm.com/download/mac

Extra Resource:

1. code school-try git (live coding environment) http://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1

2.git immersion beginner class http://gitimmersion.com/