Git: Git Intro Activity

Title	Git Intro Activity
Overview	Participants, in teams of 2-3, work through an activity to learn how to install, configure, and use git to manage local repositories.
Prerequisites	Command-line operations: Change working directory (cd) Filesystem operations: Create, rename, move, and delete directories and files Plaintext editor operations: Edit and save a file
Learning Objectives	After successfully completing this activity, the learner should be able to: Install git Configure git Make and commit changes to a repository Add new files to a repository Remove a file from a repository Modify a file and commit the change Stage changes for commit Unstage changes for commit Explain the purpose of the stage/cache/index Inspect the state of a repository Undo a commit
Process Skills Practiced

Background

Activity is maintained here: https://github.com/StoneyJackson/git-intro-activity

Directions

Directions are available here: https://github.com/StoneyJackson/git-intro-activity

Deliverables

A completed worksheet and a git repository.

Assessment

This is an in-class, team-based learning activity, and is not intended for assessment. If you really want to assess it, you would review answers teams give to questions and the git repository they produced. You could also circulate during the activity and assess team work and critical thinking.

Additional Information:

ACM BoK Area & Unit(s)	Software Engineering (SE)
ACM BoK Topic(s)	Software configuration management and version control
Difficulty	medium
Estimated Time to Complete	70 minutes
Environment / Materials	Participants: 2+ Each team needs 1 computer with A command-line interface A plaintext editor A browser A working Internet connection with ports open for HTTP and HTTPS
Author(s)	Darci Burdge and Stoney Jackson
Source	https://github.com/StoneyJackson/git-intro-activity
License	(c) 2016 Darci Burdge and Stoney Jackson SOME RIGHTS RESERVED This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License