🖥️ Week 02, Day 03 - Lecture

Keeping a History of Your Work with Git

🥅 Learning Objectives

By the end of the lecture, you should be able to: i) Create a GitHub repository and curate a short README, ii) Make a few commits with meaningful -m messages (a tiny Open Library script is the file you track), then push, using status and diff, iii) Create a branch, merge it back into main, and recognise the same moves in VS Code, iv) Publish a single Markdown page with docs/index.md and GitHub Pages.

⏰ Wednesday, 22 July 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm 📍 CBG.2.01 (see LSE’s 🗺️ campus map)

Yesterday you finished the midterm hand-in on Nuvolos. Today you put work under Git and publish a tiny Markdown site on GitHub Pages. From here on, every project in this course goes in a repository.

🗣️ Lecture Overview

• A home for your work: what Git is (labelled versions, parallel branches), then create a repo on GitHub, clone to Nuvolos
• Save a snapshot: write a tiny script, a few meaningful commits (including an optional emoji refactor), then push, and pull when the remote moved
• Coffee break
• Branches and merge: create a branch, merge it back into main by hand
• VS Code: the same moves in Source Control
• GitHub Pages: docs/index.md and Settings → Pages
• References

🎬 Lecture Slides

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After the Lecture

This afternoon you practice with classmates on a shared repository: invites, parallel edits, a merge conflict on purpose, and Pull Requests if time allows.

💻 Afternoon lab

Shared repo practice with your group.

➡️ Lab page

Questions?

Ask your class teacher during the lab.