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Activity: Make a GitHub Repo

Create a GitHub repository of your own and add one collaborator. Estimated time: 10 minutes.

Reading: the Using GitHub and AI chapter walks through these steps as a worked example.

📋 What to do

  1. List your GitHub ID. If you do not have a GitHub account yet, go back to the GitHub account and full name activity and make one first.
  2. Create a GitHub repository, following the steps in the Using GitHub and AI chapter. Give it a simple name — preferably all lowercase, no spaces. One repository per person is fine, though you are welcome to make more if it helps.
  3. Find the URL of your repository. Paste it into the Canvas text box, and take a screenshot of the repository's main page.
  4. Add one team member as a collaborator. On GitHub, go to Settings › Collaborators and click to add a new member to the repository. Supply your teammate's GitHub ID. If for some reason you cannot reach a teammate to get their GitHub ID, you can use mine and share the repository with me to test it out. My ID is timothyfraser.
  5. Take a screenshot of the collaborators page after adding the member. You do not need to wait for them to accept the invitation.
  6. Paste a screenshot of each step into the Canvas text submission box.

📮 Submit

Submit on Canvas (1 pt) — graded on completion; your deadline is on the Canvas assignment. Submit your repository URL, plus a screenshot of each step (including the collaborators page).

Note: this page reproduces the activity instructions so you can find them again after class, and it is the version kept current — surveys, slide decks and helper links are updated right here. Submit on Canvas; the due date and your grade live there.