Why do you need to use Git? Have you every nuked a site in the middle of the night and fell asleep in your own tears? Then you need to use Git.

Here is a 3ish-hour workshop I gave at HigherEdWeb Florida yesterday. We went through all of the core Git commands you need to manage proper team and contributor workflow. Here are the crib notes

Here's a video taking your through the basics of installing the GitHub for Mac app, creating a repository and doing your first few pushes.

Starting with clean user account

Download GitHub for Mac

Go to github.com and download GitHub for Mac http://mac.github.com/

Configure git

• name and email so that you show up in commits

(optional) install command line tools

Sign up at github.com

Go ...

Code With Me has been amazing so far.

What I've learned

The format of quasi-pair programming with mentors is awesome. I hope I can replicate this format for everything I teach again for the rest of my life.

We've been working on files in Dropbox. It seems so obvious, but I haven't done this before. By having the students code in Dropbox, it makes it really easy ...