GitHub

  • Source code
  • Packaged software
  • GitHub in details

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What is the source code?

  • In computing, source code is any collection of computer instructions (possibly with comments)
  • It is written using some human-readable computer language, usually as text such as HTML or JavaScript.
  • The source code which constitutes a program is usually held in one or more text files stored on a computer's hard disk

Source code example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My first web page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>This is my first web page</p>
    <p>How exciting</p>
    <p>first line<br>second line</p>
  </body>
</html>

Source code quality

  • The way a program is written can have important consequences for its maintainers.
  • Coding conventions, which stress readability and some language-specific conventions, are aimed at the maintenance of the software source code:
    • Indent style conventions
    • Naming conventions
    • Comment conventions

What is a packaged software?

  • A software package is a software that has been built from source code.
  • A software package can have additional meta-information such as a:
    • package description,
    • package version,
    • dependencies

What is GitHub?

  • GitHub[1] is a collaborative software or groupware.
  • GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects[2].

GitHub description

  • The site provides:
    • social networking functionality such as feeds, followers, wikis
    • social network graph to display how developers work

GitHub statistics

  • GitHub was launched in April 2008.
  • On 21 September 2011, GitHub announced it had reached over 1 million users.
  • On 13 September 2012, on their homepage, GitHub announced it had over 2.1 million users.
  • On 10 April 2013, GitHub announced it had 3.5 million users.

GitHub - Let's get started.

  1. Create a repository
  2. create pages with the automatic generator
  3. access the URL.

GitHub - Create the user's repository

  • In your user bar at the top right of any page, click the "New Repository" button
  • enter the following name "<username>.github.io" and click "Create repository"

GitHub - Create pages

  • Go to the repository's settings page
  • click the "Automatic Page Generator" button
  • click the "Continue To Layouts" button
  • preview your content in our themes
  • when you find a theme that you like, click "Publish".

GitHub - Create a generic repository

  • In your user bar at the top right of any page, click the "New Repository" button,
  • enter a name, click "Create repository"

Access the URL

  • Github has two types of pages namely "user pages" and "project pages".
    • User pages: used as the index page or the HOME page for your website. The URL will look something like this: 
      https://yourusername.github.io/
    • Project pages: sed for the sub-directories. The URL will look something like this: 
      https://yourusername.github.io/project_page/

Acronymous

References

  1. GitHub, Inc.
  2. GitHub From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.