Hello Open Source

Overview

Questions

• what is open source

Objectives

• Complete the steps to make a commit
• Differentiate Markdown and HTML
• Differentiate source and rendered content
• Identify the parts of the GitHub Interface
• Create a Website using GitHub Pages default settings

Key Points

• When editing fils in GitHub.com, we have to commit to save changes
• A commit is a snapshot that we can go back to
• Markup languages use special formatting to label the content and indicate styling in addition to the content in the file, examples include Markdown, ReStructured Text (out of scope), XML, and HTML
• Markdown is a a style of markup that is human and machine readable, it is rendered as HTML
• HTML is the formt of markup that web browsers use.
• Source content is what we edit and may content developer informtion, rendered content (or built) is what is for the reader, output by a build process