Version & File Histories

How can we work collaboratively and computationally?

In-Class Agenda

• Review Init IS310 Homework Questions & GitHub or Git related questions, discuss assigned readings
• Start introduction to File Formats. Slides available here and lesson available here
• Time permitting first meeting of group project teams, discuss project ideas and potential datasets. Start working on your collective and individual topic selection. Also get access to GitHub repositories for your group project, with the help of the instructors.

Assigned Materials

• Chin, Monica. “Kids Who Grew up with Search Engines Could Change STEM Education Forever.” The Verge, September 22, 2021. https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z.
• Introduction to the Command Line & Prompt Engineering
• Introduction to Versioning & Git

Additional Materials

• Ford, Paul. “What Is Code? If You Don’t Know, You Need to Read This.” Bloomberg.Com, June 11, 2015. http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/.
• Namanyay Goel. “Vibe Coding Is a Dangerous Fantasy.” N’s Blog, March 20, 2025. https://nmn.gl/blog/vibe-coding-fantasy.
• Weingart, Scott B. “The Route of a Text Message.” Vice, February 2019. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzdn8n/the-route-of-a-text-message-a-love-story.

Assignments

Individual

• Complete Init IS310 Homework. Be sure to include an AI chat log if you use AI!