Lab Setup

Your instructor may be providing coding labs and assignments via GitHub Classroom. This guide is to help you in accepting and cloning these repositories onto your computer.

Continuous Submission

Labs and assignments delivered via git repositories (such as through GitHub) are designed for Continuous Submission. This means that you can (and should) do frequent commits of your work in order to show the progress you are making on the assignment.

In other words, you can do continous updates to your work until the due date.

And by the way, don’t forget to git push your work. (You can do this as often as you wish, up to the cutoff/due date.)

1. Accept the assignment from the link provided by your instructor.

2. When you navigate to the repository on GitHub, click the green “Code” button and copy the HTTPS Web Url to your clipboard.

3. Open a terminal window on your computer and navigate to the folder where you keep your labs/assignments for the course.

   Your instructor will have given you guidance on where to put these on your computer. Follow their instructions!

4. Type git clone [paste-from-your-clipboard] into the terminal. Note: You need to paste in your HTTPS Web Url that you copied earlier.

   For example, here is a lab that was accepted by Stewart Dent Jr..

   Sample cloning command

   git clone https://github.com/SchoolCourseOrg/prog-0101-in-class-lab-2-a03-stew-dent

5. Now you can begin work on your assignment. Remember to do frequent commits!

   Making git commits

   git add .
   git commit -m "Describe what changes you made"

   And don’t forget to push!!

   Pushing is how you submit your work

   git push