[WFS-India] online git workshop dry run

[Tarashish Mishra]

I would suggest we skip the vi part. At least let people edit their files
in notepad or any GUI editor. That will save some time and there will be
less stuff to learn for new-comers


On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Kaustav Das Modak
<kaustav at codebinders.com>wrote:

> On Sunday 09 June 2013 11:59 AM, Satabdi Das wrote:
>
>> As suggested by Sumana earlier, we are trying out a dry run of the
>> online git workshop today 2:30pm-4:30pm iST (UTC+5:30).
>>
>> Joyoti, a friend of mine, volunteered to act as a participant. She is
>> interested to learn git and is on M$.
>>
>> Please join on #wfs-india if you are interested.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Satabdi
>>
>>
> The demo run began at 2:40pm IST and ended at 4:43m IST. Satabdi,
> Tarashish and me conducted the demo run. Thanks Joyoti, Sweta and Nikita
> for volunteering for this demo run. All volunteer participants today were
> on MS Windows.
>
> We could cover only till "git log" and skip to "git clone". See
> https://wfs-india.etherpad.**mozilla.org/8<https://wfs-india.etherpad.mozilla.org/8>for the steps.
>
>
> Here is my report:
>
> 0. Mentors:
>    Step 1, 2, 3 -> Kaustav
>    Step 4 -> Satabdi
>    Step 5, 6, 8 (partially) -> Kaustav
>
> 1. Timings:
>    Step 1: estimated 15 mins | took 19 minutes
>    Step 2+3: estimated 25 mins | took 23 minutes
>    Step 4: estimated 10 mins | took 38 minutes
>    Step 5: estimated 10 mins | took 19 minutes
>    Step 6: estimated 5 mins | took 5 minutes
>    Step 8 (git clone only): estimated ~ 10 mins | took 8 mins
>
> 2. The biggest time-crunch we faced was in helping participants to install
> and configure git. We will need a documentation which will help
> participants, particularly those on MS Windows to effectively install and
> configure git before the attend the workshop. Msysgit is a good client with
> a mini-bash shell for Windows.
>
> 3. Further time lag was a result of participants arriving late, and
> mentors having to recap what had already been discussed, including
> installing git. This will certainly not be the case of the actual workshop.
>
> 4. Participants were not "muted". They did not use the classbot, but
> seemed more comfortable in using the #wfs-india-questions room to ask their
> questions. Tarashish actively helped participants with their setup related
> issues on #wfs-india-questions. Not muting the channel resulted in a
> more-interactive session, but we could not progress much with the syllabi.
>
> 5. Mentors will need to study basics of msysgit to aid participants on MS
> Windows.
>
> 6. Step 4 took almost 4 times the time allotted, but I think it can be
> fine tuned heavily if the mentor writes out each step of the commands,
> including text editor options, and describes what each command does
> immediately after asking participants to type it in. However, time
> allotment for Step 4 needs to be 20 minutes at least, so that first time
> users get to wrap their head around the commandline and using a text editor
> from the commandline. The default editor in msysgit is vi, which needs a
> good deal of help for the uninitiated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> Kaustav Das Modak,
> Partner,
> CodeBinders Web Development Services LLP
> Web: www.codebinders.com
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