Building a GitHub Portfolio

Building a GitHub Portfolio in less than an hour.

Welcome

GitHub is a cloud-based platform for creating, storing, managing, and sharing text files. These files can be anything from reports and documents, code and scripts, or data files. GitHub has a thriving community that focuses on collaboration, open source, and educational materials.

• Who is this for: People interested in making a easy, pleasant GitHub landing page for their profile.

• What you'll learn: GitHub, Markdown, Basic repository structure

• What you'll build: A personal GitHub Profile for your account

• Prerequisites:

  • Hopefully, none

• How long: This exercise takes less than 1 hour to complete.

In this exercise, you will:

1. Learn how to copy a github template
2. Learn about GitHub's Issues tracker
3. Learn about markup languages
4. Edit a file with Markdown
5. Commit the file
6. Create one element of a digital portfolio (a personalized GitHub Profile)
7. Experience GitHub actions in use
8. Optionally, employ simple GitHub actions in custom profile

How to start this exercise

Simply copy the exercise to your account, then give your favorite Octocat (Mona) about 20 seconds to prepare the first lesson, then refresh the page.

Note

Please set the name of the repository to your GitHub user name!!!

Having trouble? 🤷

When copying the exercise, we recommend the following settings:

• For owner, choose your personal account.

• We recommend creating a public repository, since private repositories will use Actions minutes.

If the exercise isn't ready in 20 seconds, please check the Actions tab.

• Check to see if a job is running. Sometimes it simply takes a bit longer.

• If the page shows a failed job, please submit an issue. Nice, you found a bug! 🐛

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