Interactive Visualization with Git

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Title	Visual Git Game #1
Overview	Students learn from an interactive visual git simulator / game. This activity focuses on LOCAL Git functionality (such as that on your laptop, NOT remote internet-based code repositories). See Git_Activity_4 for the next in the series.
Prerequisite Knowledge	Git_Activity and Git_Activity_2 or an introductory understanding of what SCM is about, and basic git commands.
Learning Objectives	Students will be able to ... Create a branch. Checkout a branch. Create a tag. Checkout a tag. Merge a branch into another. Rebase a branch onto another. Cherry-pick commits. Use relative commit references to refer to commits. Move branches to a different commit. Detach and move around HEAD. Explain the difference between a branch, a tag, and HEAD.

Is there background reading material?

All material is provided in this assignment, though references below may be useful:

What is the rational for this activity?

Getting familiar with git from the command line is not easy. This activity makes it a game!

Go to tutorial at: http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/
Complete all activities under the Main tab
Take screenshots of your solutions, AS YOU GO through each section
- 15 sections in all, so 15 screenshots
Init, commit, and then create a remote repo (on github or elsewhere online) of your screenshots
- REMINDER: reuse of open source code is encouraged; submission of someone else's answers is academic plagiarism and will be enforced

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What are some likely difficulties that an instructor may encounter using this activity?

Students might easily plagiarize or copy of each others screenshots to the solutions.
To fight this, a REMINDER has been added in the directions.
Teachers might also mentioned it in-class and spot-check for it in grading.

Knowledge Area/Knowledge Unit
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Materials/Environment
Author
Source	http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/
License	The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2012 Peter Cottle

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 ** 15 sections in all, so 15 screenshots
 * Init, commit, and then create a remote repo (on github or elsewhere online) of your screenshots
-** Recall: reuse of open source code is encouraged; submission of someone else's answers is academic plagiarism and will be enforced
+** REMINDER: reuse of open source code is encouraged; submission of someone else's answers is academic plagiarism and will be enforced
 === Deliverables: ===
-* Send URL / link of remote internet-accessibly repository to instructor.
+* Send URL / link of remote internet-accessible repository to instructor.
 * 15 Screenshots of the solutions of each section, with commits
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 === Comments: ===
+What are some likely difficulties that an instructor may encounter using this activity?
+* Students might easily plagiarize or copy of each others screenshots to the solutions.
+* To fight this, a REMINDER has been added in the directions.
+* Teachers might also mentioned it in-class and spot-check for it in grading.