Version control? We can all use it!

14 November 2024

Getting started with Git for students of psychology and neuroscience: Many people are familiar with them: the famous ‘final-final’ and ‘really-final’ files are encountered wherever collaborative work on texts or analyses takes place. As this handling of files can quickly become chaotic and therefore error-prone, it is worth taking a look at the principle of ‘version control’. Today, Dr Lennart Wittkuhn tells us why this is not only very useful in everyday student life and what cooking recipes in Git have to do with it.

Version control? We can all use it!

Shownotes

Dr Lennart Wittkuhn's teaching project ‘Version control with Git’ was funded by the Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab (DDLitLab for short) in 2023 and 2024 and has already been successfully implemented twice with students at the Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Sciences at the University of Hamburg.

The aim: to facilitate collaborative text- and research data-based work for students in particular and provide a low-threshold introduction to Git.

Shownotes:

Funding period: 01.04.2023 - 31.03.2024

Förderwebseite: https://www.isa.uni-hamburg.de/en/ddlitlab/data-literacy-lehrlabor/zweite-foerderrunde/06-git.html

Internal seminar website, winter term 23/24: https://lennartwittkuhn.com/version-control-course-uhh-ws23/mechanics.html

Seminar website, summer semester 24: https://lennartwittkuhn.com/version-control-course-uhh-ss24/

Version Control Book: https://lennartwittkuhn.com/version-control-book/

Recipe book: https://lennartwittkuhn.com/recipes/

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This and other interviews on funded teaching projects at the DDLitLab can be found here.

Concept & production: Julia Pawlowski, Sven Rehder, Simon Steinhauser
Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab, August-October 2024

Spotlight: Data Literacy Teaching Lab

In our series "Spotlight: Data Literacy Teaching Lab", we talk to lecturers who have received funding for their teaching projects from the Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab (DDLitLab for short) at the University of Hamburg.

What were the innovative ideas of the projects? What were the particular didactic and content-related challenges, and the highlights?
And are there perhaps specific tips for other teachers who would also like to set up a new teaching project and are looking for experience reports?

We will clarify this and more in our look at and behind the scenes. Spotlight on!