1.0-intro.qmd

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title: "Intro to `git`"
subtitle: "Course Introduction"
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## First things first: Language 🇬🇧/🇩🇪

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- Slides are in English
- Spoken: German or English?
  - Do you have a preference / does anyone not speak German?

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## What is the course about?

- **Goal**: Learn everything that is necessary to effectively...
  - use `git` to track your own work
  - use `git` to collaborate with others
- **Format**: Mix of theory & practicals
  - Feel free to always ask questions any time!

## Agenda & Timeline

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- 10:00 - 11:30 **Block 1:** Introduction & Basics (1:30)
- 11:30 - 11:45 *Pause* ☕️
- 11:45 - 13:00 **Block 2:** Branches & More (1:15)
- 13:00 - 14:00 *Lunchbreak* 🍲
- 14:00 - 15:15 **Block 3:** Collaboration via Github (1:15)
- 15:15 - 15:30 *Pause* ☕️
- 15:30 - 16:45 **Block 4:** Advanced Github & Beyond (1:15)

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The speed of the class is always a bit variable, so the number of covered topics may differ a bit.

## Introductions: Who am I? 🙋🏼‍♂️

- Jan Simson
- Doing PhD at Ludwig-Maximilian University München
- Background
  - Computer Science (Ausbildung)
  - BSc Psychology (Konstanz)
  - MSc Behavioural Data Science (Amsterdam)
  - Worked at research lab & startup before
- Worked with `git` for a couple of years

## Introductions: Who are you? 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋

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- What do you wish to learn from this course?
- Do you have any experience with git already?
- What's your GitHub username?

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![](images/qr_code-quiz.svg)

<https://pingo.scc.kit.edu/>

## Introductions: Administration 📜

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- I will go over the list of registered students
- Is everyone registered for the course?

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## Prerequisites (Any Problems?)

- Software
  - *git*: The tool itself
  - *Sourcetree*: A graphical user interface (GUI) to use git
  - *Visual Studio Code*: A text editor, which also allows using git via its GUI

- *GitHub*: Website to collaborate via git

## Text Editor: Visual Studio Code

![Screenshot of VS Code](images/screenshots/vscode.png)

## Text Editor: Visual Studio Code

- Text Editor: A program to write text
  - Only text i.e. no layouting / formatting (unlike Microsoft Word)

- Quick Demonstration
  - Opening workbench in a folder

## Practical: Folder Structure {background-color="black"}

![Screenshot of the folder structure we'll use](images/screenshots/folder-structure.png)

## Practical: Text Editing {background-color="black"}

1. Open Visual Studio Code on your computer
    - Explore the UI
    - Set a theme if you want to
2. Create a new folder called `repositories`
3. Inside it, create a new folder called `git-exercise`
4. Open `git-exercise` in Visual Studio Code
    - Create a new file `test.txt` and write in it <br> `Hello World!`

## *End of Section* 🎉 {background-color="black"}

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