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Challenges and Confusions in Learning Version Control with Git

Ville IsomöttönenMichael Cochez

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Computer sciencebusiness.industryControl (management)computer.software_genreGitWork (electrical)Control systemMathematics educationComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONversion control systemsSurvey data collectioncomputer science educationArtificial intelligencebusinessCurriculumcomputerNatural language processing

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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. peerReviewed

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2014-01-01
http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201412113483