Preparation

This session is concerned with navigating the file system in a shell and your first steps with git.

As a preparation, please work through the following materials, watch all screencasts and do the quizzes before the next lecture.

• Why use shells today

• Git - introduction and overview

• Installing and configuring git (you only need the configuration part)

• How git works

• staging files

• making commits

• Markup languages

• Markdown syntax

• Markdown applications

If you did not attend the first lecture, you should also watch:

• Shell navigation for Mac and Linux or Windows

• Cloning repositories