Week 1, Day 5: Friday, July 14
Synopsis
Day 5 begins with an expanded session on how the Internet works. Topics covered include Internet security and the nitty-gritty of HTTP. Git 2 covers how to resolve merge conflicts, along with how to use Git Issues and other site features. Finally, a lesson on web technologies, including HTML, CSS, and Markdown will prepare participants for future sessions, and familiarize them with some common, useful tools.
Outcome goals
- How does SSL protect communication?
- Understand the basics of HTTP requests and headers
- Manage branches with Git
- How to solve merge conflicts
- GitHub Issues, Comments, and Assignments
- Review command line Git
- Transform documents using Pandoc
- Understand and write HTML, CSS, and Markdown
Legend
- Presentation: by instructors
- Discussion: instructors and participants
- Talk lab: participants discuss or plan in small groups
- Code lab: participants code alone or in small groups
9:00–10:30: How the Internet works 2
DESCRIPTION NEEDED
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 15 min | Review | Discussion |
| 25 min | Security and SSL | Discussion |
| 25 min | HTTP protocol | Code lab |
| 25 min | Any other business | Discussion |
10:30–11:00: Coffee break
11:00–12:30: Git 2
Git commits can sometimes go awry, but there are commands that undo previous edits and can help save different versions, especially when working with multiple branches. GitHub’s web site has social and collaborative tools as well, though they are not accessible via the command line.
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 20 min | Managing branches | Code lab |
| 20 min | Merge conflicts | Presentation |
| 30 min | Social GitHub | Code lab |
| 20 min | Git review | Talk lab |
12:30–2:00: Lunch
2:00–3:30: Web technologies
This session introduces HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which are the most fundamental technologies for publishing web pages. Markdown, a simplified way to create and publish HTML, is used both on GitHub and in Jupyter notebook. Pandoc is a program for converting file formats, including HTML, Markdown, and others.
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 15 min | HTML | Code lab |
| 15 min | CSS | Code lab |
| 30 min | JavaScript | Code lab |
| 15 min | Markdown | Code lab |
| 15 min | Pandoc | Code lab |
3:30–4:00: Coffee break
4:00–5:30: Review and wrap-up
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 90 min | Review | Discussion |
We’ll end each day with a request for feedback, based on a general version of the day’s outcome goals, and we’ll try to adapt on the fly to your responses. Please complete Week 1, Day 5 feedback (just copy and paste it into a plain-text document) and email your response to Kaylen at kaylensanders@pitt.edu with the subject heading “Week 1, Day 5 feedback”.