Course intro · GitHub setup · Build your first website

Day one was about getting set up and getting your first website live. Use VS Code, name every file and folder in lowercase with hyphens and no spaces, and keep your repos on your local drive instead of OneDrive or Dropbox. Markdown is the language you will write your logs, prompts, and READMEs in all semester, so it is worth learning well.

• You can use another code editor like Cursor or Antigravity if you prefer and have experience with it. VS Code is the default we'll demo in class
• File and folder names: no spaces, all lowercase, use hyphens. For example, my-project not My Project
• Don't save your repos in OneDrive or Dropbox. Use the default local path that GitHub Desktop gives you
• In GitHub Desktop, go to Options > Integrations and set your external editor to VS Code (or your editor of choice)
• Set your default browser to Chrome if it isn't already. Some students accidentally open things in Edge without realizing
• You can commit and push from GitHub Desktop or from VS Code's built-in Git panel. Both work the same way
• Markdown is the AI native language. All AI agents read and write .md files. Learning markdown well will help you work with AI more effectively, and it's how you'll write your weekly logs, proposals, and READMEs in this course

To do before Wednesday (5/20):

1. username.github.io should be live with your index.html
2. Submit both GitHub URLs on Canvas
3. Start logs/wk01.md in your oim3690 repo (template)
4. Finish any remaining setup (Git, VS Code, GitHub Desktop, Live Server, Prettier)
5. Apply for the GitHub Student Developer Pack if you haven't