vfastronauts

Your personalized, hands-on guide to learning Git and GitHub.

What is this?

This is a README that corresponds to vfastronauts, a public GitHub "repo" that I created but that you can contribute to.

README = well, you should read it. Per Github, "You can add a README file to your repository to tell other people why your project is useful, what they can do with your project, and how they can use it."

What you'll do

Before your first day at Astronomer, you'll be ahead if you can do the following:

1. Clone a GitHub repo (aka download its contents to your "local machine", aka computer)
2. Create a GitHub "Issue" (aka something you want to fix, edit, add, delete)
3. Create a branch (aka a copy of those same files)
4. Make a change to a file on your own branch (and save it, but without affecting the original file in the "master" branch)
5. Submit a "Pull Request" - aka push up that change for review by someone else
6. "Merge" that change to "master" (aka publish it and port those changes back up to the original file)

What you need

1. Your Terminal (this is an "app" that comes by default on your computer - look it up in Spotlight)
2. Git (install it here)
3. A Code Editor. Pick one of the two:
   • Atom
   • VSCode
4. A GitHub Account
   • Create an account (use your Astro email address)
5. Doritos with lime (optional)

Where to start

Everything you need to do will be in the form of a GitHub issue. With your name on it.

Click on over to "Issues" up top. Take it from there!

External Resources

Some of these are linked around this repo, but basically just copy-pasting the list Viraj put together in the powerpoint for your convenience.

• https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/
• https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/d-learn-workings-git/
• https://medium.com/@george.seif94/a-full-tutorial-on-how-to-use-github-88466bac7d42
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsyeobzWxl7q2eaUkorLZExfd7qko9sZC
• https://try.github.io/