Introduction to Development and Source Control

1. Unit Outline
2. Unit Outcome
3. Unit Lesson Plans

Unit Outline

Students will be given a thorough introduction to the command line/terminal and source control.

Introduction to the Command Line / Terminal

• What is the Command Line / Terminal
• Why use it and when to use it
• How does it work?

Command Line 101

• Simple Command Line Operations
• Comments
• Make directory
• Find directory
• Change directory
• Create a file
• Move a file
• Open a file
• Show file content
• List content of a directory
• Deleting a file
• Deleting a directory

Introduction to Source Control

• What is source control
• Why do we need source control
  • Evolution / History of Source Control
  • What can go wrong without it / remote / local etc

Introduction to Git

• What is Git?
• Why do we use Git?
• How does Git work?

Git 101

• Git in VSCode Terminal
  • Using git on the command line?
• Git Operations
  • Git help command
  • Git configuration
  • Git add
  • Git commit
  • Git branch
  • Git checkout
  • Git merge
  • Git history/log
  • Git collaboration
• Remote repository management
  • Git remote
  • Git push
  • Git pull

Git 102 - Collaborative working (exercise before group project in JS)

• Exercise
• Merge conflicts
• Pull requests
• Code reviews (light)

Introduction to GitHub

• What is GitHub?
• Why use GitHub?
• Who uses GitHub?

Using GitHub for Portfolios

• Create a GitHub account
• GitHub Portfolio
• Push and Pull from a GitHub
• GitHub Pages

Unit Outcome

• Git Cheat Sheet (or link to cheat sheet)
• Command Line Cheat Sheet for simple tasks
• Commit / Push / Pull some code / text file to GitHub repo
• A repository on GitHub for building up portfolio hosted on GitHub Pages

Unit Lesson Plans

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