Hello World GitHub and Wuthering Bytes 2017

Like many things in life that I feel I should understand or do, like finishing one of many incomplete home DIY projects or my CEng application - it has only been twenty since I registered for that one! - I lack competence in Git.  It was explained to me in an hour session a few years ago now for a complex project, but I could not easily and repeatably login to the development server and so it was a frustrating experience and I moved onto something else.

A couple of weekends ago I went to Wuthering Bytes 2017.  Billed as a festival of technology in the heart of the Pennines and running from 1st to 10th September I had a fun, interesting and sometimes frustrating time listening to talks and participating in workshops.  The Open Source Hardware Camp running at the weekend covered topics: 

• artificial intelligence and machine learning by Alan Wood; 
• RISC-V architecture by Graham Markall; 
• micro:bit conception and prototyping by Lawrence Archard; 
• the Robot Operating System (ROS) by Nick Weldin; 
• Computer Science from the ground up by Ken Boak; 
• Do's and Don'ts of building and selling an electronics kit by Jenny List; 
• and lastly a favourite of mine Conservatory and Garden Automation by Rod Moody.

As part of the myStorm BlackIce workshop I installed Git and cloned part of a repository: https://gitlab.com/Folknology/mystorm/tree/BlackIce/tutorial/BlackIce/blink.  It was really easy, in Windows using the command prompt:

Anyway, at an Alexa software developers day, we made extensive use of the web interface to Github and the RAW button to simplify code deployment into AWS Lambda and the developer console for Alexa.  The RAW button provides a format free version of the code suitable for a Select All > Copy and Paste into the appropriate destination.  The RAW button is located at the top right of the code box:

Lastly, this morning I followed a short guide on the GitHub website that I had missed before - a Hello World guide.  It runs through the parts of git that I had yet to cover:

1. Creating a repository
2. Staring and managing a new branch
3. Making changes to a file and pushing them to GitHub as commits, and
4. Opening and merging a pull request

I feel after this I have a better handle on the environment.  Anecdotally most of the functionality is ignored.

Bye.