To do yourself

• New to Git and GitHub? This Essential Beginners Guide is for you

• One-pager simple Git guide

• One-pager of git commands

• Resources to learn Git - Git handbook, cheatsheets, interactive tutorials

• Git and GitHub guide, by Karl Broman

• Software Carpentry course on git

• Blischak, John D., Emily R. Davenport, and Greg Wilson. “A Quick Introduction to Version Control with Git and GitHub.” Edited by Francis Ouellette. PLOS Computational Biology 12, no. 1 (January 19, 2016) - An excellent explanation of Git and GitHub. Definitions (Box 1), tutorial

• Bryan, Jennifer. “Excuse Me, Do You Have a Moment to Talk about Version Control?”

• Happy Git and GitHub for the useR by Jenny Bryan

• How to create pull requests on GitHub

• Git and GitHub videos for beginners

• GitHub training videos

• Git and GitHub for Beginners - 1-hour video course by Gwen Faraday

• Hadley Wickham’s introduction to Git

• General Github terms and practices

To submit on blackboard, due 10-27-2020, 5:00pm

• Install Git, and create a Github account. Update your Github profile to include some relevant information about yourself, such as your program and/or interests. Submit the link to your profile

• Create a repository out of the R package you created in Homework 6. Add all your files, push to GitHub. Make sure your package can be installed from GitHub (Hint: devtools::install_github()). Submit the link to your repository

• In command line, go to the hidden .git folder, list all files/folders. Document your observations.

• What do the words ‘minimal’ (aka `atomic’) and ‘complete’ mean in the context of Git commits?

• Fork this repository (https://github.com/mdozmorov/R_notes) to your account, so that you will have references for this course. This is for your information only

Document your responses to these questions appropriately.