Getting students set up with github was both easy and hard. Making accounts was easy – getting students to create repositories in a sensible place and regularly commit their code was surprisingly hard first time around.<\/p>\n
This was brought home in a big way with COVID-19 where a significant number of students did not have access to the latest version of their code when we went into lockdown because they had not been regularly committing the code.<\/p>\n
It turned out that despite frequent request in class and offers of assistance, a large number of students did not actually know how to commit their code and when errors occurred they did not know how to resolve them.<\/p>\n
Things improved slightly during lock-down as students who were able to engage understood the importance of doing version control well and I made a brief series of videos showing them how to
\n– create a repository
\n– clone a repository
\n– use github and repl.it together (a great option for Y11 and Y12, not so good for Y13)<\/p>\n
We still have a long way to go but this should be easier next year as students will be given clear instructions from the start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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