Git is an industry standard tool used for collaboration within teams. We teach it quite early on in our course because without it you will be fairly useless as a professional. Yes, it’s that important. The git book (below) has a better introduction.
You don’t need to know absolutely everything about Git in order to start using it. We keep our git repos on Github so don’t worry about the server setup stuff.
The first three chapters will serve you well initially:
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
As you progress through this course you will have to write a lot of code. All your code will be submitted to us for review in the form of a git repo. You will be expected to be comfortable using git from the command line.
We use Github for keeping our code safe. Here is a little intro and here is the official cheat sheet.
Also checkout TOPICS: Useful Git commands
https://www.datacamp.com/courses/introduction-to-git-for-data-science
This site that you are looking at is a repo stored on git. This is cool because it means that you can fork it and make changes to our content. For example:
Here is the repo, and this guide tells you a bit about what we ae looking for.
Contributing to our syllabus is not compulsory, but it would be appreciated :)