Create a New abc-classroom Course

The abc-quickstart script creates a new abc-classroom course, including the necessary directory structure and configuration file. The abc-classroom course directory structure will allow you to manage your GitHub classroom course from the command line supporting the following tasks

  1. Creating GitHub classroom template repos that contains course assignment materials

  2. Collecting completed GitHub repos for each assignment and for each student

  3. Providing feedback to students after grading is complete.

Note

Do not run abc-quickstart in an existing git repository. The directory created will eventually have other git repositories inside of it, and it is best to avoid creating repositories inside of existing repositories. To check that you aren’t in a git repo, run git status and look for the message fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git.

To create a new course using abc-classroom run:

abc-quickstart course-name

This will:

  1. Create a course directory named whatever you called your course-name variable

  2. Create two other directories required to store template repositories and cloned student repositories.

  3. Create a sample config.yml file that can be modified to run the program for your classroom.

  4. Create an extra_files directory that contains files (like .gitignore and a readme) that will get added to every assignment template. You can modify the contents as you like.

If you already have a directory called course-name, then abc-quickstart will fail. If you want to overwrite this directory, run abc-quickstart -f course-name.

Run:

abc-quickstart -h

to see options.

Now, you can set up the directory where you manage your assignments: Organize Assignments.