Module: Commit

Today you get your first taste of the basic development cycle. It’s okay if it all feels weird at first; by the end of the semester you’ll be committing in your sleep.

Learning Outcomes

Expectations

Students will consider and document their expectations for the course.

Fork/Clone/Modify/Add/Commit/Push

Students will fork an open source repository, clone it to their development machine, use command line tools to modify the content according to instructions, commit their changes, and push the new repository to their public GitHub account. Yes, kind of a big deal.

Readings

Why I'm Making You Learn Git

Irrefutable proof that git is useful

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

A reading to crush your dreams

Slides

Experiential Learning

Blog about your expectations for the class

What do you want from me?

1 hr 1 pt closed

Fork/Clone/Modify/Add/Commit/Push

No turning back now

1 hr 1 pt closed

Try git Online

Brought to you by the lovely people at CodeSchool

15 min 1 pt closed

Assessments

Commit - Results

One of the outcomes for this module was for students to report on their expectations for the class. Here is a sampling of ideas and possible goals mentioned in the first class meeting:

android python app
simulations on the entire universe’s cats
robot hawk
working, useable code
windows software
useful scripts for my job
an android app or plugins for blender games
death star
a program to pull relevant information from a website
abstract algebra made easy
a program
observatory archive through python
something that makes astro monkey work not so monkey work-like
death+star+python

At least two or three of these things will happen :)