Video course

[peteryates]

The original course sessions broadcast via Zoom were successful and the feedback was positive. They weren't recorded and wouldn't really have been suitable for re-watching because much of the session was general discussion and troubleshooting as people followed along in real time.

As we restart, short videos that can be paused/replayed seem like a better option. This is issue a placeholder for notes on the chapters and contents.

Video course

Part 1: Getting Github Desktop installed and configured

• what is git? what is github?
• setting up a github account
• organisations
• searching
• blaming
• diffing

Part 2: Using github desktop, the basics

• downloading, installing
• logging in
• cloning repositories
• making changes, committing them
• pulling and pushing

Part 3: Markdown

• why it's the favoured tool
• advantages over traditional word processing programs
• formatting and structuring

Part 4: More-advanced git

• conflicts

YouTube playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP7tpLuWIzzHZcnrJxTqEjflaGNbAiVWs

[ghost]

Hey Peter, how are you planning on recording this, Yourself on you mac? Should you be thinking Windows10 version behind our proxy, want to collaborate and do it both ways, you from your Mac and me on the DfE surface?

[peteryates]

Hi Niko - I'm recording on a non-DfE Windows machine.

The first section of the course is going to target only markdown, git and github. That will be focussed purely around tools we can get greenlit by the DfE - so it'll just be VS Code and Github Destkop.

The second part, which I've not planned for at all, will be the prototyping toolkit. That's a bit more involved and will need have to cover the problems you mention above. I don't have access to DfE kit so it would be great to collaborate on that part.

[ghost]

Done, we'll put something together, I have all the bypassing proxy CLI commands.

[peteryates]

Some really handy feedback from @croftla:

• What is a pull request?
• repositories vs projects?
• repo short for repository?
• what are directories and files?
• languages - code not foreign guessing.
• can see when first written, changes made by line and by which author - view is called a diff - short for anything?
• Markdown: worth noting any others like images?

On how to find content in GitHub:

• What are commits?
• We will be wanting to look at code for search results for what we need to do?