Workshop feedback 5/31/2023

[ldliao]

@aculich presented this workshop from 10am-1pm. Here are some feedback I have on the presentation:

Presentation style

• the presentation pace was great
• general immediate answering participants questions were great
• some jargons but generally explained for people to be more comfortable
• a participant discussed that maybe connecting to other languages from other workshops would be helpful (i.e., Python)
• perhaps using languages like thinking about this like a "folder" system would be helpful; I also have heard of relative paths as "parent" and "child"

Presentation material

• gentle onboarding for why use git/ getting a git account
• the flow of the presentation could include more polls to bring people in on what's their stages
• the flow of the presentation could be restructured to have concrete examples (and participants can do without hand-holding in the future)
• perhaps breaking the workshop to more focused -- either individual or collaborative (@AnushaPB discussed this +1)
• personal token wasn't explicitly needed
• adding in how to use stack overflow is helpful (which aaron did on the spot)
• adding in how to look at history or how version control works explicitly in action would be helpful
• one example could be: creating the file -> put it on git -> writing over the same file accidentally -> how to retrieve it back!?

[aculich]

@ldliao thank you sooo much for this excellent write-up and constructive feedback, as it is helping me for my prep for tomorrow's W Sep 13 bash+git workshop