Git on the cloud in the classroom

  • Authors:

  • Joseph Lawrance;Seikyung Jung;Charles Wiseman

  • Affiliations:

  • Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA;Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA, USA;Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Numerous CS faculty have demonstrated the benefits of using version control in courses other than software engineering. However, they maintained their own servers, and to the best of our knowledge, none published experiences with version control in CS1 courses for non-CS engineering majors. As a result, even faculty experienced with version control may hesitate to adopt it in some classes, fearing that it is too difficult, time consuming or distracting. In this paper, we describe how we adopted version control in a CS1 course for non-CS engineering majors, and how software hosting services facilitated its use. Our experience indicates that undergraduate engineering majors in CS courses can gain competence in version control, and software hosting services simplify class administration.