Getting connected on Github

This page details how to get started coding.

The GitHub

Before you get started and connected, you may want to see some of our current visualisations on https://impvis.co.uk/teach our website! GitHub is used to store all of the code used to create the visualisations. Once the developer (you) has set up a repository on GitHub, either command or GitKraken are used to make a copy of the repository on GitHub and store it locally (on your computer). From here, you can edit it. Communication between collaborators of a particular visualisation is Slack is used to communicate with all the collaborators of a particular visualisation. We use Trello to keep track of all the tasks that need completing to move forward with a visualisation. Documented below is how to use all of these tools and services: Summer team:

Github:

We store and share our visualisations code on Github.

If you don’t have a GitHub account, follow the instructions [here]. You will need a new username and an email address; your college email should be fine! Once you have completed your setup (don’t worry too much about customization along the way), you will receive a verification email on your registered email account. Open the email and click “verify email address.” Doing this will open GitHub logged into your new account and ask what you want to do first. If you wish to learn more about GitHub, you can follow one of their suggested options. However, you can skip if you only want to use GitHub for imperial visualisations for now.