Hm, why classroom requires admin access to organisation and private repos? It seems there is no way to opt out.
Not sure, maybe you're supposed to create an organization just for classroom?
GitHub Classroom
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Re: GitHub Classroom
#32I know this comes from the Github team, but I'm not sure if I want to grant this permission:
Delete repositories
Ability to delete any adminable repository
This application will be able to delete any repository to which you have admin rights.Re: GitHub Classroom
#33I'd hate the idea of having a record of all my mistakes as a student. I'd probably just use a separate remote for my develop branch and squash into one commit when merging to master.
Mistakes is how you learn, and (unfortunately) how you prove you're doing the work (read: the learning) yourself and aren't just copying answers or having someone else do it for you.
In a classroom setting, you don't have to pretend to be perfect. You have to learn. Perfection, polished history, etc is something you can save for your future career.
Re: GitHub Classroom
#34I've tried to use it once to teach group of 15 students.
But I left it in favor of just public GitHub repository for each student.
It just felt too heavy for the task.
Re: GitHub Classroom
#35I know this comes from the Github team, but I'm not sure if I want to grant this permission: Delete repositories Ability to delete any adminable repository This application will be able to delete any repository to which you have admin rights.
Is this limited to a particular organization or complete account?
Re: GitHub Classroom
#36This type of system seems obvious for programming courses but I wonder how intuitive it is for pure documents; the classic essay or report style assignments. At what age do kids embrace Markdown as the single source of truth for their documents? Do technical writers within Google use Gerrit, or whatever their Perforce based review process is called, as a core part of their collaborative workflow like coders do?
> At what age do kids embrace Markdown as the single source of truth for their documents?
Anecdotally, never for most students. I know many of my college classes required submissions in Microsoft Word format.
Re: GitHub Classroom
#37This type of system seems obvious for programming courses but I wonder how intuitive it is for pure documents; the classic essay or report style assignments. At what age do kids embrace Markdown as the single source of truth for their documents? Do technical writers within Google use Gerrit, or whatever their Perforce based review process is called, as a core part of their collaborative workflow like coders do?
Markdown is out of its league for proper typestting. LaTeX is superior in a major way.
Re: GitHub Classroom
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
That being said, I'm a little too annoyed that "GitHub" is synonymous with "Git" in many students' (and professors'!) minds…
Yeah, if a student is taught Github as part of their curriculum they're more likely to stick with it. I can't really knock it, but at the same time, this has been Microsoft's strategy for a long time, with students learning Office in school but no competitors, so they take it with them in their private and professional life. It's a difficult one though, given that both github and office are pretty standardized / ubiq…
I think this particular gripe has nothing to do with Microsoft as it predates the acquisition by quite some time.
Re: GitHub Classroom
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, professor, I simply don’t make mistakes.
It does. First hand experience when after couple of months of not showing any progress student shows up with completed assignment coded using constructs which where not even taught in lectures... and when asked, can not modify a thing.
I was mostly joking in my previous comment, but i know students (including myself) that have occasionally submitted assignments as a single commit passing all test cases using “novel” constructs…of course, we can readily modify it if asked to.
Re: GitHub Classroom
#40This type of system seems obvious for programming courses but I wonder how intuitive it is for pure documents; the classic essay or report style assignments. At what age do kids embrace Markdown as the single source of truth for their documents? Do technical writers within Google use Gerrit, or whatever their Perforce based review process is called, as a core part of their collaborative workflow like coders do?
Markdown is out of its league for proper typestting. LaTeX is superior in a major way.
Markdown is dead simple, quick and has minimal overhead. Sometimes the power of convenience trumps the power of features. It’s a trade-off. I would hate to have to use LaTeX for every small document I compose, but then I would hate to write anything longer than 3-4 pages in Markdown or that really required formatting (like a thesis). It comes down to flexibility and what the requirements are.