Hello World

Building your own website not only is a rite of passage, but is a medium for expressing yourself and your projects. Recording what you do is a central aspect of science. So for the first summer code project I invite you to create your own website. I will give some helpful tips but creativity is encouraged.

Like a Hacker

There are many tools available for this project, but I encourage using Github pages. Not only is the hosting free, but it approaches webpages with a hacker mentality. Git is a version control program, meaning it tracks the changes of files in a project. Using commands like git clone, git push, git pull, and git commit the project files can be managed.

This website has been hosted on GitHub and is a clone of the Jekyll-Now project. Jekyll is a framework for building HTML websites written in markdown. It is based on the Ruby language. Jekyll-Now is just one pre-made site that can be customized, with several other possible site themes.

Markdown is a way of writing in regular plain text and having it become formatted. For instance, writing *Italics* shows up like this: Italics. Learning to write in Markdown and use Git are useful skill in developing software.

For non-hackers

These skills also are useful to the non-hacker as they let you write your own story online and share your projects in whatever hobby or work you have.

The Steps

• Sign up with a GitHub account.
• Clone a jekyll-now project
• Follow the jekyll-now readme instructions
• Make some changes to your site and write a post

Going further:

• Search for other Jekyll themes (and clone to your site)
• Write a post using different markdown features
• Make changes to the Jekyll files (HTML/CSS)

Goal

Follow through with the steps by July 15th.

Game Trophies

TBA