Tag: git

A Fond Farewell to the Monthly Blog (Plus my Top Picks)

For the past two years, I’ve been writing a blog post each month featuring common mistakes that students make, tools to make students’ lives easier, sample problems, and discussions of common course topics. While I’ll be signing off from these monthly blog posts, I’d like to take the time to feature my top picks from the last couple of years: using git, topics in Java programming, and avoiding begging the question in proofs.

Rewinding Time with Git

“It was working ten minutes ago”. I remember saying that numerous times as a student, and now many of my students say something similar. If only there were a way to rewind our code by ten minutes, or to see what’s changed about our code in the last ten minutes. This blog post demonstrates how we can do both of these things with Git.