Homework submission

Homework will be turned in to your fork of this repository daily.

Setup Instructions

To set up your initial homework repository follow these instructions. You should only need to do this once.
Note in the below:

• GITHUB-USER-NAME should be replaced with your actual git user name (must be exact)
• CLONE-URL-FROM-GITHUB this URL is in a small box on the right-hand side of the main page of each Github Repository. Copy it and replace this text.

Fork & Clone

1. Using the github website, fork this repo to create a copy of it on your github account.
2. Clone the forked repo from your github account onto your computer inside your dev/ directory. The clone URL is in a small text-box on the right-side of a repository's main page.

cd ~/dev

git clone CLONE-URL-FROM-GITHUB

Note: if you don't have a dev directory yet, you may need to create it first: mkdir ~/dev. 3. cd into the newly cloned repo on your computer. 4. Make a copy of the directory template using your github username as the new name.

cp -a zz_template GITHUB-USER-NAME

git add .

git commit -m "created my directory"

5. git push origin master to put your changes up on github!
6. You should now be able to go to github and make a pull-request from your fork of the repo, to ours!

Submitting homework

When submitting homework to this repo follow the instructions in the course notes (modules) repository or the homework itself.
Labs will generally not be submitted as pull-requests to this repository.

Cloning other repos.

Throughout this course you'll be asked to clone many other repositories (repos). When you do so, make sure you first cd ~/dev. If you run git clone while inside of another repository, or if you copy one repository inside of another it will create a nested repo. We cannot easily work with nor see the files in nested repos.

Command Glossary

• cd homework/week01 = change directories into the week01 directory in the homework directory.
• cd ~/dev = change directories to your dev directory in your home directory. ~ is a shortcut for your home directory.
• cp -a from_dir to_dir = copy everything from from_dir to to_dir
• git status = check which files are changed (red) or changed & staged (green). Learner's tip: Do this before and after every git command until you are familiar with it.
• git add solution.md = stage a change for git. Staged changes can be committed.
• git commit -m "completed exercise 2" = Commit the currently staged changes to git and set the commit-message.
• git push origin master = push the commits on branch master to the remote origin. Origin is often on github.