Design Journal - First Post

Written By Samuel Stahl

The beginning of my design journal for SE 371.

Events of the Day

  • Registered a new GitHub account for use with class projects

  • Signed up for the GitHub Student Developer Pack

  • Downloaded git kraken through student dev pack offers

  • Created this blog for use as a design journal

  • Began setup of Visual Studio 2019 environment

  • created a small Fibonacci program to learn C#

Signing Up For Github Student Developer Pack

I chose to create a new github account linked to my school email (the new @depaul.edu version). This helped greatly in easily registering for the github student developer pack. I followed the link here and since my school email address was already associated with my account the submission process was easy. Within 5 minutes I was approved. The GSDP has tons of offers for free access to resources that will be handy for developers.

Gitignore and C#

I’m still learning C# and from what I can tell there are potentially a lot of cache files that don’t need to be uploaded to a github repo. I am experimenting with creating a .gitignore file that will exclude the directories containing caches and user settings.

Currently I have opted to exclude everything except the solution file, project file and .cs files. We’ll see if I need to re-add any of the bin or obj files back. I used the beginning of this repo file as a reference for creating my .gitignore.

Samuel Stahl
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