Day 2 Notes

Here are some notes that should help you follow along during Day 2.

Get a GitHub accounts

I recommend using your .edu email address, as that will qualify you for some discounts and coupons that you might want to use later. Remember to verify your email address after signing up.

If you already have a GitHub account, I recommend making a new one for this class, because some of the tools that we use will ask for permission to view all of your repositories. If you have access to e.g. private work repositories, then you should make a new account and keep things separate.

Get a Heroku account

If asked what your primary development language is, say Ruby. You can use any one of your email addresses, but remember to verify it.

GitHub and Heroku readings

While you’re waiting for everyone to finish creating accounts, read up on GitHub and Heroku. Think of question:

Read about GitHub: http://bit.ly/2skLlYx
Read about Heroku: http://bit.ly/2uLVTAP

Create a GitHub repository

Let’s create our first GitHub repository and upload the code we wrote in the CSS Basics course on Treehouse.

First, we need to get our code from Treehouse. Visit the list of your workspaces on Treehouse:

https://teamtreehouse.com/workspaces

And find the one you worked in for CSS Basics. Then, from the File menu, choose Download Workspace. (If you can’t find your Treehouse workspace, then you can download the zip file from Canvas called code-from-treehouse.zip. You’ll find it in the Day 2 folder under Files.)

Find the zip file that you downloaded and unzip it:

On GitHub, create a new repository called my-first-repo:

https://github.com/new

Click “Uploading an existing file” and then drag-and-drop the folder that you unzipped earlier. Then click “Commit Changes”.

Gitpod

Read about Gitpod: http://bit.ly/30rdY2Z

Create a Gitpod workspace based on the new repository that you created above. You’ll need to visit a URL of the following pattern:

gitpod.io/#https://github.com/your-username/my-first-repo

Gitpod will walk you through the sign-up process if necessary.

Once you sign up, Gitpod will begin creating a new workspace for you, and it will download the code from your GitHub repository on to it. You should end up here:

Right-click on index.html, select Open With…, and then select Preview:

Okay! We now have a full-fledged, industrial-grade development environment to continue building our site.

Create a profile of yourself

Use what you’ve learned about HTML to add a page called profile.html that looks like this:

http://classbook.matchthetarget.com/first_target.html

Try not to peek at the source code until you’re almost done.

Add styling

Use what you’ve learned about about CSS to make your profile look sort of like this:

http://classbook.matchthetarget.com/second_target.html

Try not to use the DevTools until you’re almost done.

Notes

Here are some notes about Classbook that may come in handy:

https://chapters.firstdraft.com/chapters/794

Ask lots of questions as you work! That’s the point, remember?

Day 2 Notes