Let’s face it. Learning the names of everyone in a class can be quite a challenge for instructors. One of the things that helps most (apart from the obvious of having previously taught someone in another class) is knowing a little bit about each individual and having a picture to associate a name with a face. This assignment asks you to write a brief biographical sketch about yourself to accomplish the aforementioned goal and provides experience using GitHub Classroom for assignments.

Expected duration
less than 1 hour
Deadline
16:45 on Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Points
10 points

Learning Objectives

  • Demonstrate working knowledge of Git, including cloning a repository, committing changes, and sharing those changes
  • Experiment with GitHub Classroom, which will be used for future programming exercises

Help Policy

Authorized Resources
Any, including classmates
Notes
Never copy another person’s work and submit it as your own.

You must document all help received from all sources, including the instructor and instructor-provided course materials (such as the textbook). Because this assignment uses Git and GitHub Classroom for assignment submission, your commit message(s) are the place to include documentation statement(s).

Assignment

This assignment provides an initial experience using GitHub Classroom. Use the following steps to access GitHub Classroom and write a short biographical sketch about yourself:

  1. Create a GitHub account if you don’t have one already: https://github.com/join. (Note: As a student, you can also apply for a Student Developer Pack that offers a free “developer plan” with unlimited private repositories for personal accounts.)
  2. Use the provided link (distributed separately) to access the assignment. You will be prompted to join the classroom roster. Click on your name to associate it with your GitHub account. Contact the instructor if you do not see your name in the class roster.
  3. Accept the assignment and wait for your copy of the repository to be created.
  4. Click on the link for your repository. The name of the repository will include your GitHub username.
  5. Clone the repository using the “Clone or download” button that appears toward the top right of the screen. When you clone a repository, you create a local copy of it on your computer so you can make changes to it.
  6. Follow the instructions in the README to update it with your personal information. You should remove the “placeholder” text so that all the content in the file focuses specifically on you.
  7. Commit your changes and push them back to GitHub.