How did it go?

[DavidHarrison]

I had read your blog post, which I found interesting, and was wondering how it went in the end.

Thanks,
David Harrison

[lorandszakacs]

Hi @DavidHarrison, overall it worked out fine. There was some trouble with students' proficiency with git.

As for the improvements @jdavis was talking about, we never wound up implementing any of them.

1. continuous integration really would have been great, don't know why we never did it.
2. As for the more formal submission process and preventing commit forgery, we wound up simply pulling all repositories and running the tests shortly after the deadline using this grading bot. Not the best of solutions, but it got the job done.

[jdavis]

That cool thing that I noticed was that the number of Git issues decreased exponentially. There were a lot of problems at first but once people understood it (after the first two homeworks or so) I didn't receive a single question about it.

I think that's a good indication that the students actually learned how to use it.

[DavidHarrison]

Glad to hear that it went well.

Thank you