296 Team Meeting - January 29, 2016

Attended: Kyaw, Jaimie Sick: Kenny

• 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!

Git responses:

1. What is a version control system?

   -System that records changes to files over time
2. Why is it useful?

   -You can 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?
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Github is the service uses Git (DVCS)
7. Why do you think git or any other version control system can be useful?

   -Easy to revert back to an old piece of code
   -Easy collaboration