Challenges and confusions in learning version control with Git

Ville Isomöttönen; Michael Cochez

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13206-8_9

Challenges and confusions in learning version control with Git

Ville Isomöttönen^*
, Michael Cochez

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Scholars agree on the importance of incorporating use of version control systems (VCSs) into computing curricula, so as to be able to prepare students for today’s distributed and collaborative work places. One of the present-day distributed version control systems (DVCSs) is Git, the system we have used on several courses. In this paper, we report on the challenges for learning and using the system based on a survey data collected from a project-based course and our own teaching experiences during several different kinds of computing courses. The results of this analysis are discussed and recommendations are made.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	178-193
Number of pages	16
Journal	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	469
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13206-8_9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Externally published	Yes

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Computer science education
Git
Version control systems

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