Repetition & Practice

Session 11

Slides Chapter: GitHub - Advanced Chapter: Issues Chapter: Graphical User Interfaces

This session

In this session, you will complete the following tasks:

1. Complete the chapter “GitHub - Advanced” in the Version Control Book.
2. Complete the chapter “Issues” in the Version Control Book.
3. Complete the exercises for the recipes project.

As always:

1. Try out the commands in the chapter and play around with them.

recipes project

At the end of this session, you should have accomplished the following:

1. Successfully added a recipe to Lennart’s recipe project (for more details, see slides)
2. Cleaned up your repository, like detailed in your received GitHub issue.

Learning objectives

💡 You can fork a repository.
💡 You know the purpose and components of a Pull Request.
💡 You can create a Pull Request from a forked repository.
💡 You know how to collaborate using the popular workflow strategy GitHub flow.
💡 You know the purpose and components of a README file.
💡 You can protect your main branch.

💡 You understand the purpose of GitHub Issues.
💡 You can create and manage Issues.
💡 You can reference an Issue in another issue.
💡 You can close an Issue with a commit or pull request.

Slides

How can I download the slides as PDF?

To print the slides to PDF, do the following:

1. Toggle into Print View using the E key (or using the Navigation Menu).
2. Open the in-browser print dialog (CTRL/CMD+P).
3. Change the Destination setting to Save as PDF.
4. Change the Layout to Landscape.
5. Change the Margins to None.
6. Enable the Background graphics option.
7. Click Save.

Note: This feature has been confirmed to work in Google Chrome, Chromium as well as in Firefox.

Here’s what the Chrome print dialog would look like with these settings enabled:

These instructions were copied from the Quarto documentation (MIT License) and slightly modified.