On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Waldman, Simon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Surely these are two different things, doing two different jobs? Git
> (either command line or through a GUI) on the local machine, and Github for
> the remote repo?
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> Or is there a local GUI that also goes by the name of Github? If so, I
> recommend **great** care in describing this; if I’m confused by reading
> it on the discuss list, I can only imagine that learners will be too!
>
>
There is a Github desktop client!

https://desktop.github.com/

Indeed, very confusing.



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> *From:* Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] *On
> Behalf Of *Anelda van der Walt
> *Sent:* 08 July 2017 06:33
> *To:* Bond, Steve (NIH/NHGRI) [F]
> *Cc:* Software Carpentry Discussion; John Poole; Bryan Johnston
> *Subject:* Re: [Discuss] Git lesson alternative
>
>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
>
>
> Thanks very much for sharing!
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>
>
> I've been wondering how we can simultaneously give a broader exposure to
> GitHub GUI as I (since I'm not a software developer but often collaborate
> with others on GitHub) mostly use GitHub and haven't had to use git command
> line probably for a year now because I could do everything I needed in the
> GUI. Not that I am promoting not teaching the command line way of using
> git, but for people who've never ever encountered version control it might
> be more accessible to first build a mental model by learning GitHub and
> then going to the next step of learning the command line tool.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
>
> Anelda
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>
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> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Bond, Steve (NIH/NHGRI) [F] <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Anelda,
>
> We have stripped out the entire Dracula example from our workshop at the
> NIH, switching to a conversions script example (dollars to cents, feet to
> meters, etc). We have also chosen to focus heavily on the GitHub UI,
> instead of some of the terminal commands that GitHub otherwise hides.
>
> https://github.com/biologyguy/git-novice
>
> So it doesn’t tie in with gap minder, but we do have our attendees writing
> little programs.
>
> There are still some significant kinks though, particularly when we get to
> the collaboration and conflict resolution sections. The last time we ran
> the workshop a significant gap developed between the faster and slower
> paced learners that was difficult to accommodate as instructors.
>
> -Steve
>
>
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>
>
> *From: *Anelda van der Walt <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Friday, July 7, 2017 at 12:07 PM
> *To: *Software Carpentry Discussion <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *John Poole <[email protected]>, Bryan Johnston <[email protected]
> >
> *Subject: *[Discuss] Git lesson alternative
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> We'll be running a Software Carpentry workshop later this month and was
> discussing the git-novice lesson again today... We would really like to
> show people how real code can be put under version control in git/GitHub as
> opposed to showing the Dracula story. I know this conversation has come up
> several times, and some instructors have started to teach git on the
> morning of day 2 so that in the afternoon, when they continue with the
> Python lesson, they can show how it can be used with git. Does anyone have
> an edited version of the git lesson that allows for integration with the
> Python gapminder lesson perhaps?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Anelda
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