Getting started with Git for students of psychology and neuroscience: Many people are familiar with them: the famous ‘final-final’ and ‘really-final’ files are encountered wherever collaborative work on texts or analyses takes place. As this handling of files can quickly become chaotic and therefore error-prone, it is worth taking a look at the principle of ‘version control’. Today, Dr Lennart Wittkuhn tells us why this is not only very useful in everyday student life and what cooking recipes in Git have to do with it.
Dr Lennart Wittkuhn’s teaching project ‘Version control with Git’ was funded by the Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab (DDLitLab for short) in 2023 and 2024 and has already been successfully implemented twice with students at the Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Sciences at the University of Hamburg.
The aim: to facilitate collaborative text- and research data-based work for students in particular and provide a low-threshold introduction to Git.