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Grade

• 7% of final grade

Deadline

• One week, see Moodle

If you ever need an extension, contact your instructor at least 3 days before the final deadline.

Objectives

• Get comfortable with Markdown
• Develop familiarity with maintaining a website on GitHub via Markdown
• Create a homepage for your coursework

Deliverables

Course website

Create your course website. It must include:

• cart253/README.md updated to include
  • A title
  • A banner image
    • Remember you will need to write the path to the image (ideally make an images folder in your repository and put it in there)
  • A paragraph describing the purpose of the website (to collect together and show off your prototyping work in this course)
  • A sub-section of useful links to
    • any of your other web-presences you want to link to
    • your reflective journal (see below)
  • A sub-section that will contain all your prototypes
• cart253/journal.md added with
  • A title (e.g. “Reflective Journal”)
  • A first entry (see below)

Don’t forget to check out the Markdown Guide and its Cheat Sheet for help on how to accomplish the above.

Also, you can preview your Markdown in VS Code by opening the “command palette” (Command-Shift-P on macOS, Control-Shift-P on Windows) and searching for “Markdown: Open Preview”.

One journal entry

In your repository:

Create a reflective journal markdown file called journal.md.

In your main README.md:

Add a link to your reflective journal so it’s easy to navigate to. Somewhere near the top.

In your journal.md file:

Add a top-level heading that says something like “Reflective Journal”.

Add a subheading that give the current date.

Now, write a journal entry in your process journal reflecting on what you learned while making a website with Markdown and GitHub. What surprised you? What is cool? What is difficult to understand? What do you hope the future audience for your work will think and feel? What are your aspirations? Include at least one screenshot (probably just of your website, just for practice). (250 words)

What to submit

You will submit a link to your website via Moodle, see below.

Advice

1. Start early. Don’t delay thinking about this. Start playing around immediately.
2. Start small. Think of the smallest possible version of what you want to make and make that first. Once it works, you can start adding to it.
3. Seek help. Ask for help as soon as you need it either to discuss what you want to do or to figure out a problem.
4. Be stylish. Make sure you read the style guide.
5. Be committed. Remember your grade includes your use of version control and writing good commit messages.

Submission

Submission will take place on Moodle. Go to the appropriately named assignment on the Moodle and then submit your work there.

Your submission should just be a plain text link to your README.md that contains the materials for this assignment, e.g.

https://your-user-name.github.io.com/cart253/

or even

https://github.com/your-user-name/cart253/

🔥 Make sure you have done the entire assignment before you submit 🔥
🔥 Make sure all your links work before you submit 🔥
🔥 Make sure all your images work before you submit 🔥

Evaluation

See the assignment rubric on Moodle for details.

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