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Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock... by fbdab103 on Saturday April 01, 2023 @02:38PM (#35402808)
Yet that is still just one more impediment to getting someone off the ground. You are already throwing programming concepts (variables, and loops, and conditionals, oh my!) + big scary IDE + likely first-time command line, etc onto their plate. Invoking yet another weirdo program into the paradigm is not helping a beginner.

Jeremy Howard (of Fastai fame) has a good analogy that we do not make people sit in a classroom for a semester to learn all of the theory of baseball. Instead, we give them a bat and a ball, and layer on the instructions of how the game works. You can get a good approximation of the game with just a couple minutes of instruction and refine the understanding from there.

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Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock... by em-bee on Saturday April 01, 2023 @07:21PM (#35405223)
if someone is at that level they are learning the language and do tutorial or student projects where version control doesn't yet matter. which is fine. once they have done a few of those, it's time to introduce basic version control.
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Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock... by fbdab103 on Saturday April 01, 2023 @07:37PM (#35405355)
I managed to finish college without a real VCS. Would it have made some things easier? Sure, but again, add it to the pile of things I needed to learn and did not have enough time to study.
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Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock... by em-bee on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:03AM (#35407935)
as far as college is expected to prepare students for work, version control should absolutely be part of that.

i don't expect a fresh graduate to be a skilled git user but if the nature of development at work is substantially different from what the student learned at school, then they will have a much harder time adjusting.

they should at least be familiar with all the concepts that they will encounter in a junior job and not be faced with having to relearn a completely different development process.

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