• Lee Hachadoorian (Markdown) and Ryan Burns (GitHub)
• Friday, Oct 30, 3-4:30pm
• Gladfelter 341

Preparation

The workshop will begin with a short demo, including some browser-based tools. However, if you want to get the most out of the hands-on part of the workshop, you should install pandoc (a Markdown converter) and GitHub Desktop beforehand, as well as creating a GitHub account.

Pandoc

Download the latest version from https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases

• For Windows use the MSI intaller
• For Mac use the PKG installer

Pandoc can convert to Word DOC(X), HTML, and a wide variety of formats. For PDF you also need to install LaTeX.

• For Windows use MiKTeX – http://miktex.org/howto/install-miktex
• For Mac BasicTeX http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html or, if you have plenty of hard drive space, MacTeX https://tug.org/mactex/

git/GitHub

Install git and create a GitHub account

• Install the graphical GitHub client from: https://desktop.github.com/
  * The website should automatically detect your operating system, but it gives you a clear option to switch if it’s incorrect.
• Create GitHub account at https://github.com/join.