Start from zero

Give an idea about GitHub, and teach you get on GitHub step by step

00 What is GitHub

everything I want to say is here check this video

01 Register GitHub

if you have your personal GitHub account, please see next step

1. open github.com

2. Click sign in

3. Use your University email to register

02 Apply education pack

Why? GitHub is not totally free. Open source repository is free, but do you really want your yet to publish work be open to everyone? No! So you need private repository. Private repository is paid service, but with education pack, it can be free to use for non-commercial.

1. go to education page (with your account log in)

2. click request a discount or use this link

3. fill your information researcher individual account

4. submit and wait at your email inbox

5. got an confirm email (normally instantly)

6. look what you can have with education pack with a snap

I will introduce some tools later

03 Step on board （join our group）

1. let me (Boyang, as the maintainer atm) know your account ID
2. then I will invite you to access our lab
3. accept the invitation
4. view the org page, look our repositories

04 View repository (main body of GitHub)

1. open one example: lab management

05 View project management

1. open project This is a Kanban system

06 Clone repository on your own laptop

• Method one: clone directly from GitHub webpage (not recommend).

• Method two: use smart tools, GitKraken (recommend)

  https://www.gitkraken.com/github-student-developer-pack

  register and download

07 Create your own branch and request for pull

10 Some thing worth to learn

GitHub guides

Intro Github