7. Vercel & Github

Lesson objectives

  • Students learn git - A source control management system

    • Understand importance of source control

    • Create a github account

    • Do not cover git command line

  • Students publish a website live on the internet using vercel

Lesson time to deliever:

1 sessions, 1.5hrs

Git

Importance of source control

Explain benefits of source control

  • Backups

  • Allows team to collaborate together

Surprisingly hard to teach. Think should split so step by step walk through steps of how to create a repositiory on github

Firstly get everyone to signup for github

  1. Clone that repository locally

  2. Add a file to it

  3. Commit

  4. Set up stream then push to it

  5. Then update file in vs code

  6. Stage/Commit the file commit

  7. Push it

  8. Then update file again/add a new file

  9. Repeat same in vscode

  10. Then repeat using command line.

These links may help trainers come up with content for the lesson:

Vercel

Was dead easy for students to work out by themselves and get it done Just point them at vercel website and get them to add github project they just created online

Important points:

  • The root of the project must be named index.html otherwise shows folder structure.

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