Plan and sketch a potential final project.
Read, sign the student/instructor/lab agreements, and commit to your repos work through a git tutorial build a personal site in the class archive describing you and your final project.
Mac computer, screen, Get lab, HTML site, patience.
I started with working straight from GitLab the first few weeks until my instructor told me I could set up Get lab on my Mac. Me and my instructor a couple of tries to get to GitLab started on my Mac using this link, but when it was set up it was easier to edit the site(still working on the demo site).
It took me awhile to find a site layout I was okay with working with the funny thing is it was the same layout as my instructors.
I found the HTML site that helped with small things around my site.