Demystifying GitHub speaker notes

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Demystifying GitHub _{speaker notes}

Umesi Obusor Ezekiel

What is GitHub

• An online collaboration platform for everyone.
• A social coding platform. ...

Why GitHub

• Open collaboration
• Vast collection of open source assets
• Features code reviews

Why you should use GitHub

• Open source adoption is increasing fast
• Large community existing
• GitHub presence is now required for most developers [I disagree: social coding is not an indicator of developer skill]

Facts about GitHub

• Two-thirds of GitHub developers work remotely
• GitHub classroom for collaboration among classes in education
• Other stats I don't care about

Ayaosi Godfrey

Why GitHub

• It's more than a database for code
• It enables contributions by providing many features

Advantages of using GitHub

• Open source: more than just free code

  • Allows innovation and variety
  • Private repos give you leverage to use GitHb without going open source

• GitHub allows you showcase your work

  • https://resume.github.io/?USERNAME gives you a summary of your skills

• Documentation is easy with GitHub

  • Uses markdown for documentation

• Allows easy collaboration

• Other features:

  • forks and clones: forks are new projects created off snapshots of other projects; clones are copies of existing projects.
  • gists: share snippet and articles with others easily
  • wikis: FAQ-style documentation for projects

Wisdom Arerosuoghene

Benefits of Version Control Systems

• Organization
  • remember what happened in each version of your resources
• Collaboration
  • synchronize contributions from many collaborators with ease
• Blame game
  • easy to find what changes caused what breakages in the system

Types of Version Control Systems

• Centralized Version Control
  • everything in one place
  • e.g., Subversion, Perforce
• Distributed Version Control
  • local copies of files, versions and modification history
  • e.g., Git, Mercurial

Obinna Odirionye

• Game lover, foodie, DevOps advocate, student ambassador @Microsoft @ingressive

Setting up a GitHub Account

• Download some tools for deployment
  • Nodejs, npm, Ionic, Cordova
  • Git

The six commands of life as a githubber

• git init
• git add .
• git commit -m "Initial commit"
• git remote add origin "remote-url"
• git remote -v
• git push origin master

A better way to commit your code the Angular/Ionic way

• npm i -g commitizen
• commitizen init cz-conventional-changelog --save-dev --save-exact
• git add .
• git cz

Vaugn Itemuagbor

This was an interactive session. Some gems from this session were tweeted at https://twitter.com/__Jonathanks/status/962307996415090690