For FabAcademy, students have to post each of their assignments on a website. The website must be a static HTML site hosted on Gitlab (though this method works for github too). There are a lot of ways to generate static sites, but maybe one of the simplest seems to be to use mkdocs.
I made a video tutorial showing the steps required to get up and running quickly with this method. Just a couple of tweaks required here… In the video I apparently missed a couple of steps. If you have trouble getting python from within VScode’s terminal to work, you need to set the path in VSCode’s settings as well as the PATH environment variable in windows. VSCode’s tutorial on installing python and selecting the proper python interpreter shares some steps to help you debug if you have this issue.
The second thing you might have to do is set your name and email in git. Try this:
git config --global user.email "<your email here>" git config --global user.name "<your name here>"
The other steps in the video should get you going.
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