[Campus-neiu-staff] switching the git activity

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

This will primarily be of interest to Paul, Jim, Sheila, Zach and Meg, who
are signed up to lead the small groups learning git.

Given what's been going on with Github lately (as well as longstanding
complaints about their use of proprietary software), I'm not thrilled with
the focus our current "intro to git" activity puts on Github.

We're probably going to change our version of the activity, but we don't
have time to do so before this weekend.  This seems like a very solid
alternative:

http://gitimmersion.com/

(This is a pretty lengthy activity, so groups can start from the beginning
and see how far they get.)

Do you all feel comfortable leading students through this activity, instead
of ours?  If enough of you prefer, we can stick with our current activity.

While I'm asking you about git, it's frequently useful to split up students
by experience so that some groups can go further while others take their
time to cover basic concepts.  Who feels comfortable leading the more
advanced groups?

best
Shauna
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