Open-saurus Rex

HackPack for VandyHack's workshop about Open Source on July 11th. Credit to https://github.com/wayou/t-rex-runner for source code.

What is Open Source?

A project is 'open source' if:

• source code is freely available to the public
• source code can be copied, modified, and redistributed by anyone

What is Version Control?

A system that records changes made to a project over time and stores previous or multiple states. Think of a Google Doc as an open source project: every time a change is made to the document, it is immediately saved and recorded in the version history of the document. This is an example of version control.

Why is version control useful?

Version control allows contributors to:

• backup and restore earlier versions of source code
• track changes made to source code over time
• track ownership of changes (who changed what) in collaborative projects
• stay up-to-date on the latest version of a project (especially useful for collaborative projects)

Git vs GitHub

• Git: a locally installed version control tool for managing and tracking source code history during software development
• GitHub: a cloud-based hosting service for Git repositories with collaborative features

The Command Line Interface (CLI)

• $ git clone https://github.com/link_to_the_repo.git - download a copy (or clone) an existing repository to your computer
• $ git add <file-name> - mark any changes to files in the repository as ready to be committed (or stage changes)
• $ git pull - download latest information from the remote/original repository (i.e. new branches) & integrate all new commits made to the remote repository into local repository
• $ git commit -m “commit message” - commit and save staged changes locally (in your cloned repository)
• $ git push - upload (or push) cloned/local repository to the remote/original repository

Forking and Pull Requests

• Fork: Get a copy of the repo that you own and can do anything with
• Pull Request: After you make changes of a fork, ask the owner of the main repo to apply them. Also good practice to do this with branches on your own projects!

Debugging Challenges:

• There are 4 categories of issues to resolve (3 ~ 4 debugging challenges per category):
• Sound doesn’t play when it should
• Scoreboard is broken
• Game doesn’t restart
• Everything is off-center