Git through CLI for a new programmer is way more harder than an expert like you getting a feel for GUI. Ultimately the expert needs to learn new ways and tools

Git through CLI for a new programmer is way more harder than an expert like you getting a feel for GUI. Ultimately the expert needs to learn new ways and tools before expecting novice to learn one. Git is just a tool and not the endgoal itself. VSCode has an excellent extension called Gitlens that provides UI for most basic git operations like branching, checkout remote branches, commit history, revert, stashing. It will take you an hour or so to familiarize with it. Teaching that extension should be sufficient for a new programmer