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GitKit: Teaching Git and GitHub/GitLab Workflow in an Authentic Context

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Grant Braught,

Stoney Jackson,

Karl R. WurstAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 38, Issue 8

Pages 22 - 23

Published: 01 April 2023 Publication History

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Version control and workflow skills and concepts are central to modern software development, a requirement for free and open source software (FOSS) community participation, and are in high demand [2]. Teaching tools and concepts such as these can be more engaging and successful when done in an authentic context, such as an existing, ongoing FOSS project [4, 1]. To facilitate that we have developed the GitKit, where students learn and practice git and GitHub/GitLab skills and workflows within an existing Humanitarian FOSS (HFOSS) project.

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Grant Braught, John Maccormick, James Bowring, Quinn Burke, Barbara Cutler, David Goldschmidt, Mukkai Krishnamoorthy, Wesley Turner, Steven Huss-Lederman, Bonnie Mackellar, and Allen Tucker. A multi-institutional perspective on H/FOSS projects in the computing curriculum. ACM Trans. Comput. Educ., 18(2), July 2018.

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The Linux Foundation. The 10th annual open source jobs report: Critical skills, hiring trends, and education, September 2022.

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Stoney Jackson and Karl R. Wurst. Teaching with vs code devcontainers: Conference workshop. J. Comput. Sci. Coll., 37(8):81--82, apr 2022.

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cover image Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges

Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges Volume 38, Issue 8

Papers of the 27th Annual CCSC Northeastern Conference

April 2023

212 pages

ISSN:1937-4771

EISSN:1937-4763

Editors:
Baochuan Lu
Southwest Baptist University
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Jeremiah W. Johnson
University of New Hampshire

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Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges

Evansville, IN, United States

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Published: 01 April 2023

Published in JCSC Volume 38, Issue 8

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