Intro to Git & Github workshop @ Skillshare

Learn the fundamentals of git and pushing your code to Github in Reshama Shaikh's Intro to Git & Github workshop at Skillshare!

6:00 Sign-in
6:30 WWCode NYC and Skillshare introduction
6:40 Workshop
8:30 Wrap-up and network

Topics Cover:
Part 1: Intro to GitHub and Git
Part 2: Branches in GitHub; Pull Requests
Part 3: Undoing work

Setup your local environment to fully engage and hit the ground running at her workshop:

Please find her workshop also: https://github.com/reshamas/git-intro-workshop

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). Window users should be able to install Git via their terminal.

3. Git installed (If time permitted)
   Git is open sourced (free) and can be downloaded for Mac, Windows and Linux from their website. 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):
   ```
   nano --version (** this is preferred one)
   vim --version
   emacs --version
   ```

2. If not Terminal Editor, you can download and use one of the following one of the Graphical Editors:

• Sublime
• Notepad (on Windows)
• Atom
• Spyder
• PyCharm
• Rodeo

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

4. Familiarity with Python is not required.

About The Instructor
Reshama is a freelance data scientist/statistician with skills in Python, R and SAS. She worked for over 10 years as a biostatistician in the pharmaceutical industry. She is also an organizer of the meetups group NYC Women in Machine Learning & Data Science and PyLadies. She earned her M.S. in statistics from Rutgers University and her M.B.A. from NYU Stern School of Business.

Twitter: @reshamas
Blog: https://reshamas.github.io