Accepting an Assignment

When you are a student in a GitHub Classroom you must accept an assignment before you can begin working on it. Once you accept the assignment you will create and get access to a unique GitHub repo based on the template repo. This documentation assumes that you have created a GitHub account and have downloaded & installed git.

1. Paste the assignment link into your browser
   • You may be prompted to sign in
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   • Enter your credentials and click ‘Sign in’
2. If this is your first time using GitHub Classroom, you may be prompted to authorize GitHub Classroom
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   • Click the ‘Authorize GitHub Classroom’ button
3. If this is your first time accepting an assignment for a classroom, you may be prompted to associate your GitHub account to your SDSUid:
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   • Carefully select your SDSUid, if you click the wrong account please notify your professor so they can unlink the account
4. You should then be able to accept the assignment:
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   • Click the “Accept this assignment” button
5. You should then see this page or something similar:
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6. Click the link ‘https://github.com/sandiegostate/sample-assignment-[your-github-username]’ to view the repository
   • You should see something similar to this
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7. Click the ‘Code’ button to choose how you would like to clone the repo
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   • Click the copy icon next to the URL to copy it
8. You can now clone the repo with git from a terminal
   • Note: replace the URL with the one that you copied for your assignment
   • git clone https://github.com/sandiegostate/sample-assignment-[your-user-name].git
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Congratulations! You have accepted your assignment and now have a local copy of it which you can work on in your preferred text editor or IDE.

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