Exercise 01: Principles & Practices of Project Management


Principles and Practices Assignment


My Process

:: January 30, 2018 ::

For details of my final project, please see 01. Concept Page.


Project Management Assignment


My Process

:: January 30, 2018 ::

Our assignment this week was to build a personal website and to describe ourself and our final project. I've never built a website from the ground up, and it was quite exciting (and frustrating) to learn the nuts and bolts of building one. After watching Fiore’s Recitation on Version Control a few times over, I decided to dig deeper into git by watching tutorials and reading more about git and html online. Here are a list of the resources that I found to be most useful:

  • Fab Academy’s Fiore Video
  • Pro Git Book
  • Installing Git
  • New Git Project Tutorial
  • Try Git Tutorials
  • Fab Academy Git Extended Cheat Sheet
  • Fab Academy GIT Cheat Sheet of Commands
  • YouTube: Corey Schafer’s “Git Tutorial for Beginners”
  • Roger Dudler’ git Cheat Sheet
  • Massimo Manichielli's Template
  • Massimo Manichielli's Lecture
  • Text Editor Install Emacs
  • Text Editor Install Homebrew

    • I began the process by installing Git, Emacs and Homebrew. Using my terminal alongside Emacs, I initialized my identity, set up my Git Lab SSH key, saved my public key to my page on FabAcademy’s Git Lab, and began creating a basic index.html using Emacs to start testing the different commands. I was able to create a basic page and tried pushing to my remote repo, but ran into a 404 error. We later learnt that we were missing the .gitlab-ci.yml file which publishes our Master branch to our FabAcademy student URL.

    Once I had a good handle on Git, I decided to search for a versatile template. I found Massimo Manichielli's Bootstrap-based template which is referenced in Fab Academy. I downloaded the .zip file from GitHub, unzipped it in my local git repo, added all the files to staging, committed them, and then pushed the files to my remote repo. I decided to use Atom, a free and open-source text and source code editor developed by GitHub. I really liked the interface and features in Atom and found the integration to Git to be quite seamless. I also learned more about html and basic commands through the resources I mentioned above.

    Using Atom Editor

    I then began updating the content on the homepage, about, contact, final project (concept) page, and exercise 01 pages via html on atom.

    I’m happy with all that I’ve learned to do in a week’s time and looking forward to building more content into the site.