Introduction to Github for Scientists

This repository hosts the website for a tutorial designed to introduce scientists and researchers to the Github desktop app and website. The tutorial is a mix of pages introducing fundamental concepts, and hands-on demo exercises. The workshop covers topics including:

• Creating repositories
• Making and pushing commits
• Accessing a version history
• Reverting commits
• Using a .gitignore
• Creating and navigating branches
• Solving merge conflicts

Pulling and forking code are not a primary focus.

The workshop can be found at:

https://jonking93.github.io/Github-Tutorial-Workshop/workshop/welcome

Prerequisites

In order to use this workshop, you will need to:

1. Install
2. Create a , and
3. Have access to a plain-text editor. For example: Notepad, Textedit, Atom, Vi, etc. (Please do not use MS Word).

For Instructors: Demo files

If you are interested in teaching the workshop, you may want to use the demo files from the hands-on exercises. These can be found in the "demo-files" directory of this repository.

License

This workshop is published under a license.