9. Breaking Down Instructions#

9.1. General think about while you work to understand instructions#

  • Are there any prerequisite steps?

  • How do later steps impact the early steps?

  • What pages do you have to navigate to for each step?

  • Where do you find the resources needed?

  • What is a reliable resource to use for steps that you are not sure about?

9.2. Specific Hints#

  • which things from your content and feature issues yesterday require HTML vs only markdown?

  • What is a pull request?

  • when do you make a branch?

9.3. Tips#

  • In github, if you have a checklist, you can hover over items to make separate issues

  • You can link issues to pull requests to mark them done automatically when you merge the pull request

  • You can make a branch from an issue page to have a space to work on that specific issue

9.4. High level instructions Instructions#

  1. Work in a Codespace to implement one content/feature addition to your site to practice HTML

  2. Create a pull request for your work.

  3. Open a codespace to preview a partner’s work and give them feedback on their PR.

  4. (if time) begin any revisions from your partner’s feedback or work on a second addition