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Introduction to GitHub for Collaborating and Academic Publishing

Installing Git

• http://git-scm.com/downloads
• https://windows.github.com/
• https://mac.github.com/

Resources for learning Git and GitHub:

Video/interactive resources

• Try Git
• Git-It
• Git and GitHub foundations
• GitHub guides videos

Text/offline stuff

GitHub Guides

• https://guides.github.com/
• https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/
• https://guides.github.com/activities/contributing-to-open-source/
• https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/

Free books

• Pro Git: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

Authoring Tools

• writeLaTeX
• ShareLaTeX
• Authorea
• IPython Notebook
• Markdown
• GitHub Pages
• Jekyll
• Jekyll on GitHub

Clever things

• IPython nbviewer
• ShareLaTeX autocompiler
• Using Travis-CI to build LaTeX projects
• GH Publisher
• SciPy Conference proceedings

Free Hosting with GitHub Pages

• GitHub Pages
• GitHub Pages default themes
• Jekyll Documentation
• Forkable Jekyll setup and theme, Hyde
• Fork-n-Go, forkable static sites

Fun things/something completely different

How can we visualise Git operations in a different way? Possible ideas:

• Animated post-it notes
• As a dance (Merge-sort with Transylvanian-saxon (German) folk dance)