Getting Started with GitHub
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Getting Started with GitHub is a tech talk that introduces GitHub and Git. It discusses what GitHub and Git are, the differences between them, and how to get started using them. The talk covers installing Git, creating GitHub and Git accounts, initializing and cloning repositories, contributing to open source projects, and resources for learning more. Integrated development environments that work with Git and GitHub are also presented.
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- 1. GETTING STARTED WITHGETTING STARTED WITH GITHUBGITHUB ACGNJ TECH TALKACGNJ TECH TALK October 18, 2019October 18, 2019 Michael P. RedlichMichael P. Redlich 1 . 1
- 2. WHO'S MIKE?WHO'S MIKE? Bachelor of Science, Computer Science from Senior Research Technician, petrochemical research organization Java Queue News Editor, Past President, (ACGNJ) Founder & Co-Facilitator, Rutgers University InfoQ Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey ACGNJ Java Users Group 1 . 2
- 3. OBJECTIVESOBJECTIVES What is GitHub? What is Git? GitHub vs. Git Getting Started IDEs Live Demo 2
- 4. WHAT IS GITHUB?WHAT IS GITHUB? A version control system (or source code management) tool A Git repository hosting service with many of its own features Provides: a web-based graphical user interface access control collaboration tools 3
- 5. WHAT IS GIT?WHAT IS GIT? A revision control system Manages a project's source code history 4
- 6. GITHUB VS. GITGITHUB VS. GIT Git is the tool to manage a project's source code history GitHub is the service for projects that use Git 5
- 7. OTHER VERSION CONTROLOTHER VERSION CONTROL SYSTEMSSYSTEMS Concurrent Versions System ( ) Apache Subversion ( ) Mercurial ( ) Resource:Resource: CVS SVN Hg 15 BEST Version Control Software (Source Code Management15 BEST Version Control Software (Source Code Management Tools)Tools) 6
- 8. WHY GITHUB?WHY GITHUB? Super-fast and e cient performance Cross-platform Code changes can be very easily and clearly tracked Easily maintainable and robust A separate utility o ers a command-line utility for Windows A separate utility o ers the ability to quickly re-scan, change state, sign o , commit and push code with just a few clicks git bash git gui 7
- 9. GETTING STARTEDGETTING STARTED INSTALL GITINSTALL GIT Available for MacOS, Linux and Windows https://git-scm.com/downloadshttps://git-scm.com/downloads
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- 11. CREATE A GITHUB ACCOUNTCREATE A GITHUB ACCOUNT https://github.com/https://github.com/ 8 . 2
- 12. CREATE A REPOSITORYCREATE A REPOSITORY 8 . 3
- 13. INITIALIZE LOCAL PROJECTINITIALIZE LOCAL PROJECT $ git init $ git add . $ git commit -m "Initial commit" 8 . 4
- 14. ELEMENTS OF A GOOD REPOSITORYELEMENTS OF A GOOD REPOSITORY .gitignore le speci es which les to leave on the local machine Documentation README.md or README.adoc le 8 . 5
- 15. FORK A REPOSITORYFORK A REPOSITORY Copy an external project to a user's GitHub account Allows for experimenting with a project without a ecting the original project Commonly used to contribute to open source projects 8 . 6
- 16. CLONE A REPOSITORYCLONE A REPOSITORY Downloads a project to a local workstation Commonly used to experiment with a project and $ git clone https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-examp 8 . 7
- 17. CONTRIBUTE TO OPEN SOURCECONTRIBUTE TO OPEN SOURCE PROJECTSPROJECTS A great way to learn and contribute to the Java community Usually requires a committer agreement
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- 20. INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENTINTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS (IDES)ENVIRONMENTS (IDES) 10
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- 22. LOCAL JAVA USERS GROUPSLOCAL JAVA USERS GROUPS ACGNJ Java Users Group facilitated by Mike Redlich & Barry Burd NYJavaSIG facilitated by Frank Greco javasig.org javasig.com
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- 24. PhillyJUG facilitated by Martin Snyder, et.al. Princeton Java Users Group facilitated by Yakov Fain meetup.com/PhillyJUG meetup.com/NJFlex 12 . 2
- 25. UPCOMING EVENTSUPCOMING EVENTS Monday-Friday, November 11-15, 2019 Hyatt Regency San Francisco QCon San Francisco 13
- 26. GITHUB RESOURCESGITHUB RESOURCES Website Open Source Guide Documentation Resources 14