Madlibs Activity

For this activity, you will use what you've learned about git to work collaboratively as a classroom to fill out a couple Madlibs stories.

How To Setup This Activity

1. Join a breakout group. One person will work on the code and the others will help them not screw it up. 😜

2. Accept the Github Classroom invite from the class website (the meeting for today). One the one person who will be coding needs to do this. Its not a problem if you all do it.

3. The person coding should log into Repl.it to work on the assignment. Your repo will be automatically cloned.

4. Open the index.html file to see the app working on your computer.

5. Create new stories, verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs! Or, just one of them---whatever you want. Checkout a new branch with a good name before you do your work. This will be a command like

   git checkout -b kyle-new-verbs
   

   Here, I named my branch "kyle-new-verbs". You should name yours something different, no spaces.

6. Take a look around at the files. Familiarize yourself where everything lives.

7. Create a new file. You can also edit existing files, but that will make our merging harder! If you want to make a new file of verbs, you might make a file at /js/verbs/my-new-file.js and in that file, add new verbs.

8. Check your code works. Refresh the page a few times. Did you break the app? No? Great!

9. Commit your changes and share them

   First, take a look at the status of your work

   git status
   

   It should show what files are new and what files are changed. Now, you want to add the new files, try the git add command. You'll need to supply a file name.

   Once you've added your changes to the "staging area", you want to make a commit. This is a command like

   git commit -m "Added some verbs for class"
   

   Now, push your changes up to GitHub.

   git push origin BRANCHNAME
   

   where BRANCHNAME is the name of your branch.

10. Go to GitHub, find your fork and the new branch, then make a pull request

    Pull requests let you tell others about changes you've pushed to a repository on GitHub. Once a pull request is sent, interested parties can review the set of changes, discuss potential modifications, and even push follow-up commits if necessary.

    Click on the logo at right to get started. . Then, once you get to another page, click the blue link.

    Finally, click the create button to checkout the commit. If you need extra help, check this out https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/ or just come see a TA.

11. The instructor will merge in everybody's work.