Assignments

Assignments are part of Metamation Academy’s intensive course on programming fundamentals. These assignments give the participants an opportunity to self-evaluate their level of understanding and put new concepts into practice.

How to push Academy assignments for review

Pre-requisites:

GitHub account
Git configuration

Sign in to GitHub

In your browser, open GitHub URL.

Provide your user credentials in Username or email address and Password fields.
Click the Sign in button.

Creating a Git repository

On the Dashboard page, Click the drop down button available on the top right corner of the screen to see list of options.
Click New repository option.

Type Assignment under Repository name field and provide a short Description (optional), if required.
Choose Public option for your repository.
Press Create repository button.

In the Owner’s field, you must select your GitHub Username.

Git

Clone repository to local

Copy the remote repository path.

Initiate command prompt from your Assignment local file folder that you wish to push.
Type git clone command along with copied repository path.

Creating a git branch

In command prompt, type git switch --create A02 to create and switch to a new branch (A02).

Make sure you do not push any files directly to the main branch.

Add files to assignment folder

Copy Program.cs file to the Assignment folder.

Type git add Program.cs to add the .cs file to local git.

Commit files

Type git commit -m and add some description within "double quotation marks".

Push branch to origin

Type git push --set-upstream origin A02 to push the branch to GitHub server.

This has to be done whenever a new branch is created.

Once the remote GitHub repository is set as the upstream target for the new Git branch, git push or pull operations can be performed normally with a simple git push origin command.

Create pull request for review

Go to GitHub Assignment repo and click Pull Request.

In the Pull request page, click New pull request option to compare and review between different branches and commits.

Select A02 branch to compare and review the assignment with main branch.

Leave a short comment about the pull request and click Create pull request.

Add reviewer details and set the pull request for review.