Hi everyone, I'm reading the Baker et al article about the initial instance of Library Carpentry (Baker, J., et al, (2016). Library Carpentry: Software skills training for library professionals. LIBER Quarterly, 26(3), 141-162. https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10176). In the Next Steps section, the authors mention learners' struggles with Git during this workshop, and note that other curricula exclude Git because of its difficulty. Specifically: "...this is a finding of comparable training programmes and is a reason for Data Carpentry not teaching Git and GitHub" (p. 158).
There isn't a citation for the information about why Data Carpentry doesn't teach Git and GitHub, and the Teal et al article describing Data Carpentry doesn't mention Git (Teal, T. K., et al, (2015). Data Carpentry: Workshops to Increase Data Literacy for Researchers. International Journal of Digital Curation, 10, 135-143. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v10i1.351). I would appreciate any insight and/or links to discussions specifically about this decision to exclude Git from Data Carpentry. I'm not interested in debating the decision. Rather, I'm working on a paper on teaching Git; documentation of this discussion would be helpful supporting information for the paper's opening contention that Git is difficult to both teach and learn (something that's not news to this group!). Thanks very much in advance, Jamene Jamene Brooks-Kieffer Data Services Librarian University of Kansas Libraries 785-864-5238 [email protected] she/her/hers ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T914cb72e74e12319-M00bf6ecf7f88280b15c10e0e Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
