Intro to Git & GitHub Workshop (@Capital One)

INFO:

This event is in collaboration with Postgres NYC Women: http://meetu.ps/e/GPbHk/1wpWZ/a

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Reshama Shaikh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshamas/) is a statistician / data scientist with programming skills in Python, SAS and R. She earned her M.S. in statistics from Rutgers University and her M.B.A. from NYU Stern School of Business.

Twitter link: @reshamas (https://twitter.com/reshamas)

DESCRIPTION:

This workshop will cover Git, the open source version control system for storing your programs.

The following skills will be covered:

• Introduce Git & GitHub; explain difference between the two
• Introduce GitHub website; review settings and options on GitHub account
• Create a repo on GitHub website
• Set up a repo on GitHub and invite collaborators
• Fork and clone user or organization repo
• Use branches on GitHub (* time permitting)
• Undo changes - revert commits (* time permitting)

REQUIREMENTS / PREPARATION:

1. GitHub account

Please have a GitHub account https://github.com and save your user id and password in an easily accessible place.

2. Unix terminal

Attendees should have access to a Unix terminal (via Mac or Ubuntu).

Mac users:
https://git-scm.com/downloads

Windows users: Install Git Bash
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-bash

3. Git installed

Ensure that Git is installed by typing:

$ git --version

OPTIONAL (helpful, but not required):

1. Terminal Editor (check that you have one of the following installed):
   Vim --version
   Emacs --version
   Nano --version

2. If not Terminal Editor, then one of the Graphical Editors:
   Sublime
   Atom
   Spyder
   PyCharm
   Rodeo

3. Some familiarity with Markdown will be helpful, but it is not required

NOTES:
This workshop covers Git CLI (command line interface, not Git GUI or Git Desktop).