GitHub goes to school
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GitHub goes to school
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Re: GitHub goes to school
#2If you don't need specific features of Github but want a fantastic place to keep Git stuff, Bitbucket is brilliant. Unlimited free private repositories for up to 5 collaborators, and add+confirm any educational email address to make that unlimited collaborators. http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/08/20/bitbucket-academic/
Re: GitHub goes to school
#3I was happy to see that my university decided to self-host a Gitlab server for CS students instead of using proprietary options like GitHub or Bitbucket. The students that set up the server learned from the experience, the instructors got around the problems they were having with Bitbucket's account limitations, and the new undergrads have a great platform on which to learn Git.
I would encourage other educational institutions to do the same. Proprietary software like GitHub is anti-educational.
Re: GitHub goes to school
#4I was happy to see that my university decided to self-host a Gitlab server for CS students instead of using proprietary options like GitHub or Bitbucket. The students that set up the server learned from the experience, the instructors got around the problems they were having with Bitbucket's account limitations, and the new undergrads have a great platform on which to learn Git. I would encourage other educational in…
Proprietary software like GitHub is anti-educational.
I have nothing against GitHub, and I use it myself, though I resent its becoming of an official requirement and be-all-end-all holy grail among hipster circles. However, he's right. Proprietary software and education simply do not mix, they're antithetical.
Not to mention GitHub doesn't expose the entire Git functionality (such as options like reflog, the lack of which in client side led to the whole Jenkins gaffe).
Re: GitHub goes to school
#5I was happy to see that my university decided to self-host a Gitlab server for CS students instead of using proprietary options like GitHub or Bitbucket. The students that set up the server learned from the experience, the instructors got around the problems they were having with Bitbucket's account limitations, and the new undergrads have a great platform on which to learn Git. I would encourage other educational in…
Honestly, how is GitHub anti-educational once you get past the fact that several students set up a Gitlab server and learned from it. That's a one time benefit.
Re: GitHub goes to school
#6I was happy to see that my university decided to self-host a Gitlab server for CS students instead of using proprietary options like GitHub or Bitbucket. The students that set up the server learned from the experience, the instructors got around the problems they were having with Bitbucket's account limitations, and the new undergrads have a great platform on which to learn Git. I would encourage other educational in…
What is 'anti-educational' about proprietary software?
At the very least, one can't expect CS students to have an education which is valid for the workforce without any exposure to proprietary software at all.
Re: GitHub goes to school
#7I was happy to see that my university decided to self-host a Gitlab server for CS students instead of using proprietary options like GitHub or Bitbucket. The students that set up the server learned from the experience, the instructors got around the problems they were having with Bitbucket's account limitations, and the new undergrads have a great platform on which to learn Git. I would encourage other educational in…
Conveniently written from your MacBook Pro, right?
Re: GitHub goes to school
#8Side note:
When you have 15 links in one sentence where every word is a link to somewhere and the word actually has no meaning, then I think it's time for a bullet list. It might just make people actually click a link. But all those links in one sentence are of little help IMO.
Re: GitHub goes to school
#9I was happy to see that my university decided to self-host a Gitlab server for CS students instead of using proprietary options like GitHub or Bitbucket. The students that set up the server learned from the experience, the instructors got around the problems they were having with Bitbucket's account limitations, and the new undergrads have a great platform on which to learn Git. I would encourage other educational in…
Conveniently written from your MacBook Pro, right?
Oh, you.
- Sent from my iPad
Re: GitHub goes to school
#10I was happy to see that my university decided to self-host a Gitlab server for CS students instead of using proprietary options like GitHub or Bitbucket. The students that set up the server learned from the experience, the instructors got around the problems they were having with Bitbucket's account limitations, and the new undergrads have a great platform on which to learn Git. I would encourage other educational in…
Conveniently written from your MacBook Pro, right?
The difference is students are not forced to use MacBooks when completing coursework.