[Ccsf-campus-staff] how did the event go?

[Maria Pacana]

Re. git, that's a good point...I had to go to several Git classes /
workshops before I could understand how it worked! It was definitely very
frustrating at first.
On Mar 24, 2014 7:08 PM, "Veronica Ray" <veronica.l.ray at gmail.com> wrote:

> A lot of students made pull requests by the end of the git intro so it was
> far from a failure. I was actually amazed so many pull requests were made
> given that most people started with no git knowledge.
>
> I'm not aware of any 1 hour git/GitHub workshop that would not confuse or
> frustrate total beginners --- it's a very confusing and frustrating topic.
> But there are also lots of good online resources for understanding git (ex.
> Try Git, Git Immersion) that would have been better than the current
> curriculum.
>
> I wasn't happy with my part of the contribution workshop. No one had used
> Rails before or had their computers set up for Rails development. Next time
> I would announce my part of the workshop and make sure interested students
> were set up to develop in Rails before Saturday. (Alternatively, I would
> have picked a language/framework that people in the workshop were familiar
> with.) I ended up working intensively with a couple people to set up their
> environments and walk through how I solved the issue. That was very
> rewarding.
>
> Next time I think it would be nice to have a list of  issues that the
> students could work on during the contribution workshop. They would need to
> be very very small and tailored to the skills/interests of the students
> attending.
>
> I can understand why so many students left after the git workshop. The
> previous talks introduced a large amount of information and there was
> nothing clear to work on during the contribution part. I could see the
> contribution workshop being an optional second day for students with more
> programming experience and/or clear ideas about what they wanted to work.
>
> Veronica
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Maria Pacana <maria.pacana at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Shauna!
>>
>> The morning went well; people seemed engaged during the intro to IRC, and
>> I think they responded well to my talk<https://github.com/mariapacana/openhatch/blob/master/opensource.md>about finding / reaching out to OSS projects. Students seemed frustrated /
>> confused by the Git intro, which we pretty much did according to the
>> curriculum; a bunch of people got up and left after that. In the future, it
>> might help to give a conceptual, high-level explanation of Git (maybe
>> accompanied by a diagram on the whiteboard) so that students can have a
>> better mental picture of what all the incantations mean.
>>
>> During the contribution workshop, one group worked with Veronica on a bug
>> from Refuge Restrooms, while other people studied Git / researched other
>> open source projects. I think that dividing people up into the two tracks
>> was a great idea; it might've been good to do it even earlier (like before
>> the Git workshop). I don't think anyone made any OSS contributions that
>> day, but I definitely spoke to a couple people who were carefully
>> researching projects on OpenHatch / GitHub and drafting emails to the
>> maintainers.
>>
>> ~ Maria
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> When you get the chance, I'd love to hear how the event went on
>>> Saturday!  Did the logistics etc go smoothly?  Did you have enough mentors?
>>>  What were the best/worst parts of the day?  I'm especially interested in
>>> hearing about the curriculum changes you made and how they went over.
>>>
>>> best,
>>> Shauna
>>>
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> Veronica Ray
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