296 Team Meeting - January 29, 2016
Attended: Kyaw, Jaimie
Sick: Kenny
Updates
- Finished git tutorials
- Answered git questions
- Arduino tutorials
- Arduino software downloaded (Kenny please do when you have your laptop)
- Set up another time
- Proposal presentation update:
- Talk 5 mins
- Motivation (i.e. reasons/interests for joining lab)
- Expected timeline (short term intermediate goals)
- Goals (i.e. what we hope for weatherbox to do: data collection)
- Summary of what we did (tools: arduino, github, etc.)
- Make it personal!
Discussions
Github Q/A: 1. What is a version control system?
- System that records changes to files over time
2. Why is it useful?
- You can save things (when, why, what the change was for)
- Makes it easy to recall specific versions later
3. What is git?
- It's a distributed version control system (DVCS)
- They show the latest version of the file and mirror it in a repository
giving you the ability to back up to a server 4. What is Github?
- Web-based git repository hosting service.
- Sort on server/local machine (Git)
- Server on (Github)
6. How are git and Github different from each other?
- Github is the service uses Git (DVCS)
7. Why do you think git or any other version control system can be useful?
- Uses version control (makes fast)
- Easy to revert back to an old piece of code (provides record of changes)
- Easy collaboration (allows many people to edit files)
- Easy is mentioned a lot aboveā¦ It's easy to use! (novices can use)
Reminders
- Update readme section (team members, team goals, every member create bio)
- NO GITHUB TO EDIT readme section
- Work on presentation
Authors
Contributing authors:
Created by jobatake on 2016/01/28 10:11.