prerequisites.md

Prerequisites for the hands-on session "developers"

To make the most of our time during the hands-on session "developers", we require that the attendants have a GitHub account, a git client installed on their personal computer, and that they are familiar with the basic git commands (git clone, git add. git pull ).

The following sections contains the instructions to open a GitHub account, install Git, and additional resources to refresh the git basics.

1. Open a GitHub account

If you don’t have a GitHub account, go to https://github.com/signup and follow the steps to open an account.

2. Install a git client

• Mac OS X installation instructions
• Linux installation instructions
• Windows installation instructions

3. Getting started with Git

If you are not very familiar with Git, here is a list of short videos that will help you to catch up:

1. What is Git?
2. Git basics
3. Creating and merging branches

We will also briefly review the Git basics during the hands-on session.

If you want to learn more about Git, we recommend reading the following guides written by Atlassian:

• Getting started with git
• Collaborating