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Revision Control System (RCS) in computational sciences and engineering curriculum

Published: 13 July 2014 Publication History

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The Revision Control System (RCS) is an essential aspect of software development process and software configuration management. While continuing to be an integral component of the real world, it is often left out of the main stream curriculum in most academic institutions. Instead, students are expected to learn it on their own, as a hobby or as an independent study, out of personal interest. The author describes the experiences gained from attempting to implement a distributed Revision Control System, Git, as part of the computational sciences and engineering curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The author also describes the advantages for both parties involved: improving the competency of students and preparing them for the real world expectations while providing the teacher an opportunity to provide timely feedback to the students and monitor their progress. The availability of free and open source tools used to analyze and visualize the commit history to the repository helps teachers and students observe submission and feedback patterns respectively.

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XSEDE '14: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
July 2014
445 pages
ISBN:9781450328937
DOI:10.1145/2616498
  • General Chair:
  • Scott Lathrop,
  • Program Chair:
  • Jay Alameda
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  • NSF: National Science Foundation
  • Drexel University
  • Indiana University: Indiana University

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 13 July 2014

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  1. Computational Sciences and Engineering
  2. Computing
  3. Education
  4. Git
  5. GitHub
  6. GitLab
  7. Gource
  8. Programming
  9. Programming Etiquette
  10. Revision Control System
  11. Teaching

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XSEDE '14 Paper Acceptance Rate 80 of 120 submissions, 67%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 129 of 190 submissions, 68%

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