IDDO Data Dojo 1 - Hey presto dojo repo intro

This tutorial is for the first session of the IDDO Data Dojo, a recurring workshop to discuss research/data skills and shortcuts. In this tutorial, we initialise a GitHub repository for the data dojo and get everyone set up.

Before we start, we need everyone to:

• Have Git installed. (Git comes with macs/linux, but Windows users will need to download). To check Git is installed, in your terminal, type: git version
• Have a GitHub profile set up.
• Have their GitHub profile included in the IDDO GitHub organisation.
• Ideally, have followed a beginner tutorial to git/GitHub - see Resources below.

Structure

Welcome to the IDDO Data Dojo! We’ll use this session to share interesting tips and tricks for data processing, coding, and reproducible research.

To get started, we will need to set up a GitHub repo to share resources for future workshops - the task for today! We will cover:

• How to initialise a git repo locally, and on GitHub
• How to structure a git repo, including:
  • directory structure
  • README
  • .gitignore
• How to add content to our repo - we’ll add our very first post in markdown.
• How to use somebody else’s git repo, including forking, cloning, and pull requests

Resources

• Have a look at my beginner tutorial for git and GitHub
• Our Coding Club’s intro to GitHub tutorial
• Our Coding Club’s tutorial for setting up a lab repo
• Git is my lab book A compendium of guides/tutorials (see their GitHub here: https://github.com/robmoss/git-is-my-lab-book/)

[Off we go to GitHub!]

Terminology

A quick recap! By the end of today, we should be familiar with:

• Staging/committing/pushing
• Cloning/forking/pulling/pull requests