I'm going to do something unusual for me: Snip out everyone's messages and write a quick summary of my thoughts message.
(Maybe it's my lack of sleep talking.) This summer, OpenHatch is planning to set up a "training missions" part of the site where students who want hands-on experience playing with git, Subversion, tar, patch, and diff can go through exercises. We'll have a programmatic backend for checking students' work. I guess with regard to the IRC conversation, my feeling is, "If this student needed to understand git enough to go through a real tutorial, then that's when you should start explaining." I look forward to open source projects having wiki pages like this: "To get the source code, clone this git link. (Don't know what git is? You can learn all about how to use it by going through a git training mission.)" And maybe we can give people a profile badge, or something...? I'm just thinking aloud. We'll be nailing down details and the ways to integrate this with the community in a few weeks.... We'll swing around to this list for help with the material, I'm sure.... -- Asheesh. -- Of course you have a purpose -- to find a purpose. _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
