git-course-playground

This repository is your playground during and after the "Using Git" course at 2018-10-09. Check out the slides folder for all the slides of the git local and remote sessions or the example folder for the used example code during the git remote session.

Downloading the Data

You can either clone this repository (recommended way) or use the Download zip functionality.

GIT GUI Tools

• Sourcetree (Win/Mac) (for new version, you’ll need an account)
• MS Visual Studio Code (Win/Mac) Editor with Git extension
• GitKraken (Win, new it’s also available for Mac)

Text Editors

• MS Visual Studio Code (Win/Mac) (recommended)
• Atom
• Sublime Text

Acknowledgement

• This course is designed after and borrows a lot from:

  • Effective Programming Practices for Economists, a course by Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
  • Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry designed by Greg Wilson
  • Shotts, W.E. (2012). The Linux Command Line. San Francisco: No Starch Press.

• The course material from above sources is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution License, as is this courses material.

Programming Practices Team

Programming Practices were updated by

• Marc Biedermann

and created by

• Lachlan Deer
• Adrian Etter
• Julian Langer
• Max Winkler

at the Department of Economics, University of Zurich. These slides were originally from the 2016 edition of Programming Practices for Economics Research.