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title: GitHub for PIs

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# GitHub for PIs

Persona;

## Goal

Teach enough GitHub & git to allow PIs to follow and contribute to their students work

## Skills

### Basics
- what is version control
- markdown
- Discussions in Issues
    - traceability of decisions
    - task tracker
- Pull requests
- Reviewing

### Advanced
- forking
- branching
- committing/pushing
- updating from upstream

### "Data" for workshop
- pre-populated GitHub repository with
    - pseudo-code
    - README.md


Considerations:

Interactions important:
- Perhaps instructor act as the collaborator

## Challenges:

Multiple choice:



- Spot an error and feedback in an issue
    - A rendered example of a short analysis with an error.
    - They will have been shown:
        -  a repo
        -  where website links live
        -  where issues live