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Project Ideas

This section has three purposes:

  1. Practice using the Git commands we learned in the previous section.

  2. Give you realistic examples of how we could use Git to track a (coding) project.

  3. Teach you how to clone and utilize open-source projects.

Git Clone

The git clone command is used to copy a repository from a remote location to your local machine.
This could be your own work you want to work on from a different computer, or it could be a project you want to contribute to, or it could be a project you want to use as a starting point for your own project.

The basic syntax for the git clone command is:

git clone <remote_location> <local_location>

The remote_location is the location of the repository you want to copy. This would be a URL to a GitHub repository. The local_location is the location on your local machine where you want to copy the repository. This would be a path to a folder on your computer.

Don't worry if this doesn't make sense right now. We will be using the git clone command in the next section to clone a project.

Project Ideas

Three possible projects were handcrafted for this workshop. They are:

Coding a Pytorch MNIST Classifier

(source)1

Coding a Minecraft Clone

(source)2

Coding a Simple Personal Website

(source)3

  1. [https://nextjournal.com/gkoehler/pytorch-mnist] ↩

  2. [https://github.com/SpyderGamer/Minecraft-with-Python] ↩

  3. [https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/getting-started/] ↩