Session 9: GitHub - Collaboration

Track, organize and share your work: An introduction to Git for psychological research

Course at University of Hamburg

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Dr. Lennart Wittkuhn

lennart.wittkuhn@uni-hamburg.de

Konrad Pagenstedt

konrad.pagenstedt@uni-hamburg.de

June 03 2024 (12:15 pm)

1 Jobs!

Work with us! Research and teaching assistant positions

Projects

P1: Version Control Course

Course on Git for researchers

Develop “Version Control Book”
Maintain project website
Create exercises and quizzes
Tools: Git, Quarto

P2: Open Educational Resources

Course on OER for researchers

Create new course (website)
Create new online guide
Conducting interviews
Tools: Git, Quarto

Project 3: Digital Research Skills

Development of course book
Development of project website
Creating exercises and quizzes
Like Git course
Tools: Git, Quarto + new tool(s)
- “Git for data” (DataLad)
- Software Containers (Docker)

General

🔧 Tools

git-scm.com

quarto.org/

💰 Salary

RA: 13.25 € / hour (SHK) / 15.21 € / hour (WHK)
TA: 299.04 € / month (SHK) or 467.20 € / month (WHK)

✉️ Contact

Questions, interest: lennart.wittkuhn@uni-hamburg.de
Get in touch with Konrad (konrad.pagenstedt@uni-hamburg.de) if you would like to know what the work is like

Details about project positions

Position 1: Research Assistant for new course on “Digital Research Skills”

📓 Project: Support development of new course on “Digital Research Skills”
📆 Duration: 01.08.2024 - 30.09.2025 (flexible)
🕐 Time: up to 20 hours / month

Position 2: Research Assistant for new course on “Open Educational Materials”

📓 Project: Create course and manual for “Open Educational Materials” with Quarto and Git
📆 Duration: 15.08.2024 - 31.08.2025 (flexible)
🕐 Time: up to 30 hours / month

Position 3: Teaching Assistant for Version Control Course in WS 24/25

📓 Project: Support international virtual “Version Control Course” with Erasmus University Rotterdam
📆 Duration: 14.10.2024 - 01.02.2025 (WS 24/25)
🕐 Time: ~ 2 hours per week

Position 4: Teaching Assistant for “Open Educational Resources” in WS 24/25

📓 Project: Support course at UHH on creating Open Educational Resources with Git and Quarto
📆 Duration: 14.10.2024 - 01.02.2025 (WS 24/25)
🕐 Time: ~ 2 hours per week

Position 5: Teaching Assistant for “Digital Research Skills” in WS 24/25 or SS24

📓 Project: Support teaching new course on “Digital Research Skills”
📆 Duration: 14.10.2024 - 01.02.2025 (WS 24/25) or 07.04.2025 - 19.07.2025 (SS 24)
🕐 Time: ~ 2 hours per week

2 Schedule

Schedule

No	Date	Title	Contents	Reading	Survey/Quiz
1	2024-04-08	Introduction to version control	Organisational matters Overview of seminar sessions Introduction to version control Introduction to Git and its advantages	Intro to version control	Course introduction Survey
2	2024-04-15	Command line	File Systems Benefits of the Command Line Basic Command Line commands	Command Line	Command Line Quiz
3	2024-04-22	Setup + Git Fundamentals	Installation and configuration of Git Initializing a Git repository Basic Git commands	Installation, Setup, First steps with Git	Installation Survey, Git Basics Quiz
4	2024-04-29	Basic Git workflow	Practicing basic Git commands Ignoring files with .gitignore Good commit messages	First steps with Git	Git Basics Quiz
5	2024-05-06	Git Branching and Merging	Understanding branches in Git Creating and switching between branches Merging branches Resolving merge conflicts	Branches	Git Branches Quiz
6	2024-05-13	Quarto Workshop	Introduction to Quarto
7	2024-05-20	Whit Monday	Cancelled
8	2024-05-27	Introduction to GitHub	Introduction to remote repositories Creating a GitHub account Creating and managing repositories on GitHub Pushing and pulling changes	GitHub Intro	GitHub Quiz
9	2024-06-03	GitHub with collaborators	Cloning a remote repository Branching and merging in a collaborative environment Pull Requests GitHub Issues Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), e.g., GitKraken	GitHub Intro, GitHub Issues	GitHub Quiz
10	2024-06-10	GitHub with the world	Forking a remote repository README files Project Management	GitHub Intro, GitHub Issues	GitHub Quiz
11	2024-06-17	Repetition and Practice	Repetition and Practice
12	2024-06-24	Publishing	Creating Tags with Git Creating Releases with GitHub Using Zenodo for scientific publishing Licences Citation Files	Tags and Releases
13	2024-07-01	Graphical User Interfaces (cancelled)	Repetition and Practice Introduction to using GUIs	Graphical User Interfaces
14	2024-07-08	Summary & Wrap-Up	Course evaluation Repetition and Practice Introduction to using GUIs	Graphical User Interfaces

3 Last session: GitHub - Intro

Last session: GitHub - Intro

https://lennartwittkuhn.com/version-control-book/chapters/remotes-intro.html

Last session’s learning objectives

💡 You can connect your local Git to a remote repository service.
💡 You can create a remote repository.
💡 You can pull and push changes to and from a remote repository.

Questions about the last session?

4 This session’s topic: Github - Collaboration

Today’s topic: GitHub with collaborators

GitHub flow

This and next session’s learning objectives

💡 You can fork a repository.
💡 You know the purpose and components of a Pull Request.
💡 You can create a Pull Request from a forked repository.
💡 You know how to collaborate using the popular workflow strategy GitHub flow.
💡 You know the purpose and components of a README file.
💡 You can protect your main branch.

Today’s chapter

https://lennartwittkuhn.com/version-control-book/chapters/github-advanced.html

Your turn

Content Review: Read the chapter “GitHub - Advanced” in the Version Control Book.
Implementation: Try out the commands in the chapter! Play around! Have fun!.
Note: Please complete the implementation exercises on the next slide
Quiz: Complete the exercises in the survey.

Ask questions!

Let’s git started!

Implementation Exercises

Task 1: Private collaboration with pull requests (using “GitHub flow”)

Add your partner as a collaborator to your recipes repo
Clone your partner’s repository
Create a new branch in your partner’s repository
Add a recipe to your partner’s recipe.qmd file
Add and commit the changes
Create a Pull Request
Review the PR your partner made in your repository
Merge the PR into your repository

Task 2: Complete the GitHub Quiz

Task 3: Clean up your repo and improve your `README.md` (optional)

5 Jobs!