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#054 - CS Programs Should NOT Teach Git feat. ThePrimeagen
59 minutes Posted May 20, 2024 at 11:00 am.
Introduction
Why teach about Git?
Was Prime taught Git?
add files individually or git add .
Hot take about git in school
What should you learn in school in the first place?
Where did school come from?
You can't become a software engineer in 3 months
Contents of Part 1 and what will Part 2 of the Git course be about
Rebase vs Merge and Prime's current workflow
Why you shouldn't merge
A lot of the times, people just don't know the tools
The advantage of rebase
Rewriting history criticism
Prime's terminal coffee shop
Doom in the terminal?
Is the bandwidth the problem with the Doom game?
Ideas for the controls for Doom
Where to find Prime
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Show notes
Today, we bring back a dear guest and friend of the podcast, ThePrimeagen! Now Ex-Netflix engineer who turned his full focus to content creation surrounding software engineering and tech.
In today's episode, we talk about his new Git course on boot.dev, where he shares motivations on why he decided to write a course on Git, how he incorporates it into his workflow and shares some hot takes regarding today's tech education landscape, his opinion on bootcamps, colleges, and what his ideal way of teaching computer science is.
To finish off, he shares some of his exciting new ventures, namely a coffee shop and a Doom game which you can play through twitch chat!
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https://www.youtube.com/c/theprimeagen
ThePrimeagen's other Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen
ThePrimeagen's Twitter: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen
Terminal Coffee Shop: https://www.terminal.shop/
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