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Week 1: Project Management

This week I worked on defining my final project idea and started to getting used to the documentation process.

Here’s How I Set up my Git Respository.

First off, you’re going to follow this tutorial

Fab Academy has already set some of this stuff up so you will click

  • Academany ->Fab Academy -> 2026 ->Fab Academy 2026 Labs ->Fab Lab NoDa ->Fab Lab NoDa students -> Castor Alaba

  • Next, press “code”, and “develop” in web IDE

  • Now you’re in the guts of your website! Make sure to have it open in another tab so you can see everything you changed

I used W3 schools to learn the basics of HTML!

  • Remember, code DOES NOT CARE where you put a line break when it runs it, unless you use “pre”

  • Now I can read various parts of the website already built.

Everytime I see text like this

Ghost peppers `

That means I can play around with the words inside without breaking the website.

You can tell if something is a header because its surrounded by one of This is a header ================

Eventually, got tired of making a commit every 3 lines, saving, and then checking my work. This means its time to clone my repository so I can do it offline!

With the help of Adam, here’s what we did: * Download Visual Studio Code * Fail to figure out how to do an SSH key * Open up the teminal on VC * How do I clone a repository? * go to git-> user -> token * create a token, allow all permissions * get the token * Now i run it in the VSC terminal * It asks for gitlab authorization, I log in with my name and the key * sucess!!

  • told the terminal who i was with git config –global user.email “you@example.com”

git config –global user.name “Your Name”

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART. YOU MUST HIT CTRL+SAVE TO SAVE YOUR PROGRESS then you type the following:

git add –a git commit -m “any changes” git push

Troubleshooting

Photos

In markdown, the notation is words

To add a photo, use the notation drag the photo into the images folder and into as many sub folders as you like go to the photo you want within your repository left click and copy relative path paste into the () under the pathing, delete /docs and replace i with ../ make sure there are NO SPACES in ANY of the folders or photo names ctrl+F “" click the down arrow to the left of the pop up replace all “/” *it should work now :)

IF YOU MOVE THE LOCATION OF YOUR FILES YOU NEED TO CHANGE THE PATHING OF ALL THE FILES YOU MOVED

git init . git add . git commit -m “initial commt”