[Campus-gmu-staff] MENTORS: please read

Tue Apr 15 12:09:29 UTC 2014

I don't mind helping out with more advanced git topics, but I won't have
time to prep much before Saturday (which I don't think will be a problem if
it's a small group). If there's enough time, I'd like to talk about
development workflow, and show branching and rebasing to bring your branch
up to date with remote development. I use those git features frequently, so
they seem good to know, but I'd be open to whatever advanced git topics you
want.

Frank

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> Replying to the whole list in case my reply is useful:
>
> 1.  Yes - students install git (as well as do a few other things) at the
> start of the day, during laptop setup:
>
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Laptop_setup
>
> 2.  I agree, although I don't particularly want to enforce a "no goofy
> nicknames" rule.  :)
>
> 3.  It sounds like maybe you'd be a good fit for the more advanced git
> students, who'll likely speed through the activity and want to learn new
> things.  You can teach them things like this.  Sound appealing?
>
> 4.  See #3.
>
> Let me know what you think about leading the advanced git activity!
>
> (And everyone else, I'd love to hear your responses to reading through the
> mentor guide!)
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Frank Hunleth <
> fhunleth at troodon-software.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Shauna,
>>
>> Yes on option b, (Git activity).
>>
>> Regarding the Git activity, I had a few questions after looking at the
>> instructions on the OpenHatch wiki:
>>
>>    1. Will the students have git installed? I'm just curious, since
>>    stuff like getting ssh keys set up right sometimes takes a while. I can
>>    help with Linux setup, but I may struggle with Windows and Mac.
>>    2. Also, at least with some high school students that I've worked
>>    with, it's really nice when they set up their first name and last name in
>>    the git configuration to be their real name and not a goofy nickname.
>>    3. Speaking of the git configuration, it seems nice to let people
>>    know about the editor and color options. Several Linux-based projects
>>    require patches to be sent to a mailing list, so maybe letting people know
>>    that git can send emails is useful even if they don't need it initially.
>>    Here's my gitconfig if it helps give an idea of what I'm talking about:
>>    https://gist.github.com/fhunleth/401859dc4e09be066f3a
>>    4. I've found that writing good commit messages is very helpful in
>>    getting patches accepted to projects. This is something that I can mention,
>>    but I did want to point out that I rarely use "git commit -m <message". I
>>    normally edit the commit message in the editor so that I can have a good
>>    topic sentence and then a sentence or two of explanation beneath it.
>>
>> Anyway, the Git activity looked good. There's a lot to using git
>> regularly that obviously won't fit into the allotted time, but this will
>> help a lot to those who are new to it.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 2:06 PM
>> Subject: [Campus-gmu-staff] MENTORS: please read
>> To: campus-gmu-staff at lists.openhatch.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Can you take a look at the mentor guide and let me know if you feel
>> comfortable:
>>
>> a) presenting the open source communications tools lecture
>> b) teaching students how to use git via our git activity
>> c) being on the career panel
>>
>> We should figure out who is doing what so they can prepare.
>>
>> best
>> Shauna
>>
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>>
>> --
>> Frank Hunleth
>> Troodon Software LLC
>> Embedded Software Development
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>>
>
>

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