Re: [TOS] git / github interactive introduction

2017-10-14 Thread Carol Willing
Hi Emma and others, I worked on OpenHatch for a number of years so it's cool that folks are still using the materials. Sharing with Emma and others, a slide deck (consider it public domain) that I have used with complete beginners that uses my opinionated git workflow for open source. It's the

Re: [TOS] git / github interactive introduction

2017-10-14 Thread Emma Irwin
+1 on using the Open Hatch process, where people make small commits that have real-time effect via Github Pages. The only flag on that, when I ran it was multiple PR's on the same file ('adding your name') can result in conflicts, and unless you're teaching how to merge conflicts makes it frustrati

Re: [TOS] git / github interactive introduction

2017-10-14 Thread Emily M. Lovell
One intro activity that I like is involving participants in a sample web project on GitHub. I got the idea from OpenHatch after mentoring at one of their workshops - and I’ve since repeated a variant in class with my own students. Here’s an example repo from an OpenHatch workshop: https://gith

Re: [TOS] git / github interactive introduction

2017-10-14 Thread Carol Willing
The Django Girls tutorial's section on bash and git/GitHub are very accessible and self paced. Software Carpentry also has a good git tutorial. Both are open source. > On Oct 14, 2017, at 11:17 AM, meg ford wrote: > > Hi, > > This one might be good for beginners: > https://try.github.io/leve

Re: [TOS] git / github interactive introduction

2017-10-14 Thread meg ford
Hi, This one might be good for beginners: https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1 Meg On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Sarah A Sharp wrote: > I don't have a good tutorial resource, but a word of advice: give students > directions beforehand as to how to install git on both Windows and Linu

Re: [TOS] git / github interactive introduction

2017-10-14 Thread Sarah A Sharp
I don't have a good tutorial resource, but a word of advice: give students directions beforehand as to how to install git on both Windows and Linux computers. A friend watched an interactive git workshop where three students with a Windows laptop spent the whole session trying to install git rather

[TOS] git / github interactive introduction

2017-10-14 Thread Joanna Klukowska
Hi All: We are preparing a github workshop for the next week meeting of the open source club. I know that there are tons of tutorials and videos online, but I was hoping for something that could be done in an interactive fashion. The students attending will be at very different levels of experi

Re: [TOS] Fw: Two requests regarding the new site

2017-10-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Heidi and all! I'd like to apologise for the tone and contents of my earlier message. Sorry if you were offended. Lately I've been suffering from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomania (though relatively mild ones) and I may have been