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Chapter: Introducing Git
Lecture: Prerequisite knowledge and experience
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So what do you need to take this course? What pre work of set knowledge or experience do we expect you to have?
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Well, you're in luck. It's not very much as I said the beginning,
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this is really for people who are new to source control as well as professional developers.
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So we don't ask a lot of you basically no version control experience at all The more you've had of course,
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the more you'll be able to relate some of the ideas about, like say the difference between a distributed and a centralized version control system,
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but that's not required. We're going to write all of our code in Python and
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our examples are going to be Python based but you won't really need to know Python very much at all to do this course.
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It's a great language, it's lots of fun. It's what I do, but we just need some sort of source code text files
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basically that we can change and see how those effects happen. We're going to do that with Python but you don't really need to know a lot
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about it. You can just follow along, you will probably need to set up some software on your system.
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A lot of the new tools installed just for your user profile. So that's great. But you're going to need to be able to install software for
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the various ui tools that we recommend and some of the editors and so on and finally a little bit of terminal and command prompt in Windows experience.
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Now I told you we're going to stay out of the terminal for almost the entire
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time. But there's a cool couple of examples and a cool couple of tools that
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we can bring in that will enhance our experience for the few times you do need to be on the command prompt,
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so it's worth having that experience as well.