This page is intended for people who are not already familiar with git and GitHub. If you are already familiar with git/GitHub feel free to make a pull request using your usual workflow. This tutorial will walk you through creating PRs from the GitHub website directly. This is highly inefficient for most purposes. However, for the purposes of adding/updating a website page it can be convenient.
What is a pull request?
The short answer is a PR is a suggested change to a GitHub repository. Maintainers of GitHub repositories usually want to vet changes before deploying them in order to avoid accidentally breaking the code base. The SIMCODES website is maintained as a GitHub repository and thus we must use PRs to change it.
Tutorial: Adding a New Student Profile
This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a new student profile.
Step 1. Navigate to the SIMCODES-ISU.github.io repository
The source code for the SIMCODES website lives . The actual website should look something like:
The view in front of you is a file system similar to what you see when
you use Finder or MacOS or File Explorer on Windows. Like on your local
system, files are organized into folders. The source code for the website
lives in the docs directory (I don’t know why it’s called docs as opposed
to source or something more sane…). If you click on docs it should take
you to a new file system view that looks something like:
When you get to the docs page you