Getting Started

Learn Git

• Do a generic Git tutorial
  • by Bitbucket
  • others, in particular, Git-it (untested, please report back!)
• Understand the various locations used by Git
  • Git ≠ Github!!
  • We use Github, Bitbucket, and sometimes Gitlab
• (optional) Get familiar with the desktop apps (mostly for Windows folks), but you MUST learn the command line!
  • Github Desktop (Windows, Mac)
  • Sourcetree (Windows, Mac)
  • TortoiseGit (Windows)

Learn Markdown

Most modern Git hosts work best with text files coded in Markdown. It is also useful if expanding to R. Anyway, learn it! You will be required to maintain README files in Markdown.

Downloading

There's nothing to download! That being said, Markdown files are text files, and some text editors are better than others at rendering the "pretty" version of Markdown (see Atom or Visual Studio Code

Learning

• Learning Markdown
• Mastering Markdown
• Markdown Cheatsheet is probably all you will ever need.