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GIT: Pedagogy, Use and Administration in Undergraduate CS

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Arnold Rosenbloom,

Sadia Sharmin,

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ITiCSE '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3059009.3072980

Published: 28 June 2017 Publication History

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A pedagogical and technical HOW-TO for the git version control system, including administration, applications in class, for student collaboration, and assignment submission.

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June 2017

412 pages

ISBN:9781450347044

DOI:10.1145/3059009

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Renzo Davoli
University of Bologna, Italy
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Xavier University, USA
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Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
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University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus

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Tu YTerragni VTempero EShakil AMeads AGiacaman NFowler ABlincoe K(2022)GitHub in the Classroom: Lessons LearntProceedings of the 24th Australasian Computing Education Conference10.1145/3511861.3511879(163-172)Online publication date: 14-Feb-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3511861.3511879
Buffardi KZhang JSherriff MHeckman SCutter PMonge A(2020)Assessing Individual Contributions to Software Engineering Projects with Git Logs and User StoriesProceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3328778.3366948(650-656)Online publication date: 26-Feb-2020
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Conner DMcCarthy MLambert L(2019)Integrating Git into CS1/2Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/3381569.338158335:3(112-121)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3381569.3381583

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