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I am a self taught developer who never went to college, is git normally not taught in school?

• burkaman 8y ago
  It is sometimes briefly taught as part of a project course, but it's generally up to the professor. If your professors prefer svn or don't care, it might not ever come up in the classroom.
  • vkou 8y ago
    My professors expected us to upload a zip file containing our solution to an FTP server. We had one software engineering class where we were forced to use SVN, but everything else was either upload your final solution, or e-mail your code to the prof.
• jeremymcanally 8y ago
  I gave talks at several universities (including several prestigious and one Ivy) when I worked at GitHub about git and related topics. One out of probably ten total had ever used git (or really any version control) in classes. Granted, this was six years ago, but from what I've seen in interviews since then, it's still not commonly taught and something that's picked up outside the curriculum. My grad classes at Harvard use it, but I'm not sure how common it is at the undergrad level there.
• orn688 8y ago
  I finished undergrad this year (small liberal arts college), and all my classes beyond the CS101 equivalent used git. But the deepest we got into git in lecture, even in a software engineering class, was add + commit + push and hence most of us saw it as nothing more than a homework submission CLI. Most of our assignments were pair-programmed though, so we didn't often need git to be more than that.