- Can a student or mentor from any college participate? Yes, anyone who likes open source software is welcome!
- Can a student without any programming experience participate? Yes, we think is enough time for a beginner with basic familiarity with computers to learn the basics of a programming language.
- Is there an entry fee or selection criteria? No.
- Is programming background necessary to start learning Git? No, Git is a version control system that can be used to record changes to even a .txt file
- What’s the difference between Git & GitHub? Git is a version control system that lets you manage and keep track of your source code history whereas GitHub is a cloud-based hosting service that lets you manage Git repositories (and much more).
- Would you teach programming to beginners? Unforunately no. We won't be able to teach you programming but we’ll guide and help you with coding the right way, suggest resources and inculcate best practices!