Course repository

All the course materials will be uploaded to the course repository on Github. As a prerequisty, Git should already be installed on your computer. Git is a version control system that allows you to manage and keep track of your source code history. GitHub is a cloud-based hosting service that lets you manage Git repositories. Github incorporates git’s version control features so they can be used collaboratively by different people.

Clone the ITA21 course repo

Cloning the ITA21 repo from GitHub will create a new folder in the current working directory with the contents of the repository. Therefore, make sure to navigate to the folder where you want to keep the course material before cloning.

For example, i keep all my code projects in a folder Code on my home drive. Therefore, i would do the following.

Windows

cd %USERPROFILE%/Code
git clone https://github.com/compas-teaching/ITA21.git

macOS

cd ~/Code
git clone https://github.com/compas-teaching/ITA21.git

After cloning, change to the newly created folder and have a look at what's inside.

Windows

cd ITA21
dir

macOS

cd ITA21
ls -a

Update the ITA21 course repo

Change the current working directory to the ITA21 folder and pull the latest changes.

Windows

cd %USERPROFILE%/Code/ITA21
git pull

macOS

cd ~/Code/ITA21
git pull

This will pull all new content from GitHub onto your computer.