Primer Basic Week 2

Objectives:

• CSS: styling, positioning and the cascade
• Git: cloning, staging, committing

By the end of this lessons, students will be able to:

• Create a new repository on gitHub
• Clone a git repository
• Check the status of a repository
• Edit a repository
• Stage changes to a repository (git add)
• Commit changes to a repository
• Manipulate elements on an html page through css styling and positioning within the cascade

Necessary materials:

• New_repo with index.hmtl
• pcs-primer-exercise repository

Process:

1. Start-up activity
2. Git: instructor guides on projector and speaks what he/she is doing. Students follow along from their own computers, take notes, and ask questions as they arise
   • Create a new repository from GitHub
   • Clone a repository (pcs-primer-exercise, or use a blank repo with a index.html file)
   • Make a change to the html file, git add, git commit PCS-Primer-Exercise
   • Direct students where to locate repo from Portland Code School user on gitHub
3. Instructor guides students on assignment by inviting students to read segments from the instructions.md
4. CSS: float
   • Explore float on codepen
5. Lab: work on iteration 2

Homework:

Treehouse badges: * Branches (10 min)
* Merging (11 min) * Workflows (11 min) finish pcs-primer-exercise

Assessment: Complete by the start of the third class

• Complete and share first assignment

References

• Duckett: pages 370 to 375 (css positioning, specifically floats) help with git