paurullan wrote:
I am studying computer engineering at the university and for a
long time we had had using a typical paid hosting to store our
projects. Now we are looking for alternatives and began
considering github.
Are college assigments a proper use of github?
Do you think we should have this kind of stuff in a private project?
Why?
Has anybody got any kind of experience on a case like this?
I would expect only 2 main kinds of problems to be concerned with:
1. If your project is public, students in the same class may copy from each
other, since they tend to have the same assignments. While this may be fine in
the real world when its just about getting the job done, the point of college is
to learn how to do things and seeing another student's solution for the same
assignment is not helping you figure it out for yourself.
2. Some teachers may consider the details of the assignments they give to be
their own private intellectual property and wouldn't want them disseminated to
the world, but just be used within the limited context of their classes.
Bottom line, just use private repos for all class assignments, by default.
Though there can be exceptions where public is better case-by-case.
-- Darren Duncan
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