π― Covering key GitHub terminology.
π― Walk through GitHub.
π― Creating our first Hello World Project.
π― Personalising GitHub.
π― Sharing good repositories to star.
π― Finding good users to follow.
π£ = This top navigation will send you to all your open π issues
π,
π Pull Requests π ,
π GitHub Marketplaceπ and to explore others work.
π = Whatever activity you are a part of in GitHub, you will get notifications, that will show up
next to the bell. The plus icon lets you create repos, files and more.
π‘ = Your profile and settings and all your work will show up here. We will cover this more later.
Grey = Here, we will create a new repo, the original Hello World. We will cover this later as well.
π»ββοΈ (white) = All your issues, and open pull reuqests will show as recent activity.
π’ = Whoever you follow, whoever's project you are watching, all their activity will show up their.
π΅ = Here, you make your own profile readme, where others will see a quick overview of you, we will
discuss this later!
1οΈβ£ Lets make a repository:
As seen in the above color coded image, see the button that says Create repository , outlined in red and click it!
π΄ = Here, you add a suitable name for your repo, in this case, Hello World .
π = Here, you add a quick simple intro about your repo.
π’ = If you choose to set your repo as public, you allow others on the internet to view your work.
If it is confidential, the set it as private.
π£ = Add a README.md for a longer aesthetically pleasing description about your work.
π‘ = Pick a license, we use MIT.
π = Here, you can star, fork (get your own copy) and watch the activity of your repository.
π΄ = You can see the dashboard of all your work and settings.
π‘ = Here are all the files of your code.
π΅ = Now, you can edit your description, and see those who are involved with your repo.
π’ = Where the README.md is. You can style it using π Markdown π
π£ = What to press to clone. https://github.com/USERNAME/REPO.git
Use this to learn about Command Prompt: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/16-terminal-commands-every-user-should-know/
π― Now, we open up where we saved the repo, to make the code changes.
π Repository : A project, where all the code is kept.
π Pull Request : A draft of code, where others check, review and approve it, before it is
merged, to the acutal main code.
π README.md : A file that contains the information about the other files in the directory.
π Git: Language that tracks the changes that are made in the local copy of your repo
(repository) to update the remote copy.
π Full GitHub Glossary π
To push all your code to the remote work, you need Git Bash:
π Download Git Bash πStackoverflow, the home of code questions!
Enjoy learning to code!