About this website
This website provides information about setting up repositories for course materials for CS courses at UCSB, using a particular workflow:
- Course Materials are organized in git repos
- Those git repos are hosted on github.com so that the materials are published via Github Pages as Course Websites.
- Pages can be authored in Markdown, standard HTML, or a blend as convenient.
- Pages are constructed in a way that
- Helps avoid copy/paste and search/replace when materials are used
- Allows individual instructor customization
- Using git/github keeps a record of what was changed over time.
- Several frameworks are preloaded and their features can be used:
- Jekyll is the main server side framework
- Bootstrap is the main client-side framework
- Also available: the features of FontAwesome, JQuery, Mousetrap and Popper.
- Syntax highlighting via Rouge for Python, C, C++, Java and over 100 other languages
- The MathJAX library can optionally be included so that LaTeX expressions such as
$$ x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a} $$show up as \(x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}\). (find out how)
- A common Remote Jekyll Theme,ucsb-cs-course-repos/course-repo-jekyll-theme is used to make maintaining the sites easier.
The links above provide more help and resources.
This site is maintained in this github repo: https://github.com/ucsb-cs-course-repos/ucsb-cs-course-repos.github.io. If you are a CS department faculty member or TA that should have access to this page, contact Phill Conrad to request an invitation to be a collaborator on that repo.