Accessing Repositories

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Jekyll Site Configuration

Jekyll is a simple configuration of folders and files that enable a powerful blog interpreter for Github pages.

You don’t need to install Jekyll locally. Github’s co-founder wrote Jekyll so Github pages defaults to using Jekyll.

Understanding Jekyll Components

  • layouts
  • includes
  • posts

Some necessary syntax

Gists

Your projects are going to be written using Gists so we will understand them a bit.

Markdown

Gists in Jekyll

Gists are easily embedded into Github pages using Jekyll. This point illustrates the reusability of some software based tools.

How could you improve the reusability of some of your work?

Local Repository Access