Background information

Git & GitHub

First of all, if you’re new to Git and GitHub, here are a few helpful resources.

• What is Git (in a nutshell)

  • If you’re totally new to Git, then I recommend reading over this.
  • Contains a lot of the basic concepts and terminology.

• Introduction to the Command Line

  • For folks new to the command line, this is a great introduction.
  • Includes fundamentals like navigating your file system through the command line interacting with files, plus a handy command reference guide.

• What is GitHub?

  • A quick guide to the basics of GitHub.
  • Creating a repository, commits, branches, pull requests.

GitHub Pages & Jekyll

• What is GitHub Pages?

  • Walks through setting up a user/organizational site.

• Jekyll Home & Documentation

• GitHub Pages Supported Themes

  • This is helpful if you need to get into the details of a theme or to troubleshoot problems if you’ve switched themes.

• Remote Themes

  • Even more themes for your pages site…
  • But your mileage may vary when using remote themes. You may want to clone the whole repo rather than adding using the remote_theme option in your _comfig.yml file.

• Markdown Cheatsheet

Just a great tutorial

• Building a static website with Jekyll and Github Pages

  • This guide has a lot of great background info for beginners, particularly some of the tools you might want as you get more comfortable.
  • These are very good instructions for getting Ruby and Jekyll up and running locally for both Windows and Mac users.

A few tech recommendations

• Git

  • Well, obviously. For the hands on portion of this exercise, you don’t need it… but you should install Git anyway if you don’t have it.
  • Windows users: Git comes with Git Bash, a Linux-style command prompt (aka “shell” aka “terminal”), which will make life easier.

• Atom text editor

  • If you don’t have a decent text editor, Atom is great and it’s free and open source.

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