🍎 Students under 13 will automatically have a GitHub account created for them based on the screen name they have provided when they registered. The only part of this lesson such students will need to do is select a profile image.
- “Facebook for Developers”
- Sign Up
- Pick a Lowercase Screen Name
- Select the Free Plan
- Skip the Survey
- Start a Project
- Verify you Email Address
- Find the Email
- Create a New Repository
- Create a README
- Change the Name and Edit
- Commit New File
- Change Your Profile Icon
- The Rest of Your Profile
Although people call it that, it is so much more. We have had students approached for jobs based on what was in their GitHub repo. Those seeking qualified candidates—particularly with hard to find skills—regularly search GitHub for repos containing what they are after. Colleges and other schools use GitHub as a portfolio of sorts when examining the work and community activity of a potential candidate. Are there successful, amazing, brilliant engineers who are not on GitHub? Of course, but the ones that are getting the visibility and the jobs of their choice are.
💬 One of the saddest realities about the tech work force in big companies in particular is that they become walled off from innovation and new discoveries happening outside their own enterprise. Many careers have died when such individuals suddenly find themselves looking for a job with a tool box full of old, rusted, dull tools. Keep your tools sharp at all times, no matter where you are working. Imagine if a doctor, or even an orthodontist did not keep up on new technologies and techniques. Yet somehow technologists get lulled into thinking they are not required to hold themselves to the same standard of up-to-date-ness.
Make sure you are in Incognito if you are on a public Chrome web browser. Go to github.com in your web browser.
🍎 Students who are under 13 likely have had this done already.
You want a lowercase GitHub name especially since it becomes a part of your web site address and every single Git URL you have to type to check out all your GitHub repos full of code later.
No need for anything more—especially since as a student you get unlimited private repos when you apply for them.
We will go ahead and create a first project to have something to work with a little later. We will create a special project that will contain your personal web site hosted for free by GitHub.
And click on “verify email address”.
We will name this a special name that GitHub uses to identify your
personal web site. The name must be your exact account name, followed
by .github.io.
In case you have not noticed yet, this entire course textbook is
hosted on GitHub with README.md files. These are very convenient and
powerful. Make one now.
Rather than name this one README.md, which is good for most repos,
we will name it index.html instead. This special file name is
universally known to be the default web page to show on a web site.
Do not forget to Commit your work. This is the equivalent of save.
Yeah, un-noob yourself by taking a moment to find an icon you like. Keep in mind this icon will also be the icon that SkilStak™ uses for you in our achievements profile system.
🍎 Teachers and parents should be aware of the image selected by the student—especially for those under 13.
🍎 This will be left blank for obvious reasons for those under 13.
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