Practical Informatics for Biologists is a course at the University of Groningen 2016-2017.

• 9:30 - 9:45 Lecture Kees

• 9:45 - 10:00 Exercise create github

• 10:00 - 10:15 Lecture Jorik

• 10:15 - 10:30 Exercise create repository + workflow

• 10:30 - 10:45 Break

• 10:45 - 11:00 Lecture Kees

• 11:00 - 11:10 Exercise Fairy tale reading + grade explanation Richel

• 11:10 - 12:30 Exercise Fairy tale + workflow + for your grade

First lecture starts sharply at the time indicated.

You will be graded on three things:

• The GitHub you create for your project
• Your GitHub profile
• A document titled 'The Grade I Deserve Is ...'

Deadline for these is at Friday the 20th of January 18:00 (note: with your GitHub work, I will take a look at the repository at the last time before 18:01).

The GitHub you create for your project should demonstrate that you've explored the possibilities of GitHub. Possibilities to explore are, for example:

• Create a nice README.md with useful pictures
• Put your TODO list at the Issues
• Add a license
• Add a .gitignore file
• Issues that are closed
• Make a commit with the right username and email address
• Multiple commits with meaningful commit messages
• A merge conflict that has been checked in, then fixed in a later commit, e.g. Fairytale_test
• A complete deletion of the GitHub its content, that has been undone in the next commit
• A Pull Request from someone else, that has been accepted
• A Pull Request from someone else, that has been rejected
• Create more branches

Also the GitHub profile should demonstrate that you've explored the possibilties of GitHub. Possibilities are, for example:

• A profile picture
• Becoming a collaborator at another GitHub and add content
• Issue posted at GitHubs you are not a collaborator of
• A GitHub you have forked
• A successfull Pull Request you have made to another GitHub
• A Pull Request you've made to another GitHub, that has been rejected
• Following people
• Starring GitHub projects

The document titled 'The Grade I Deserve Is ...' should be a Markdown file on your GitHub. Your README.md should mention it, so it can be found easily.

The document should convince the reader which grade you deserve on today's exercise. Aim for a 6 when you just did the bare minimum, aim for an 8 when you did your best. The document should have few words and many screenshots. It should not be a professional document: you will waste your time when you make that document pretty.

Things that have low/none impact for your grade:

• Biological relevance
• Spelling errors
• Slick looks

For those going for a high grade:

• Fix more complex Issues, especially of your classmates
• Improve the code of your classmates
• Experiment with Git and GitHub features that I have not described
• Use Travis CI to check something
• Display a Travis CI badge

For foreigners, this is (my interpretation of) the Dutch number scale:

• 10: Perfect (nearly impossible to achieve)
• 9: Excellent (rare)
• 8: Good
• 7: Okay
• 6: Mediocre
• 5: Sloppy
• 4: Bad (rare)
• 3: Terrible (very rare)
• 2: Utter crap (extremely rare)
• 1: Did not do anything

• Presentation Kees: [here](20170120Git and GitHub.pptx)
• Presentation Richel (in 2015-2016 course): here