GitHub Education teacher meetup
Join GitHub Education for a computer science teacher meetup at the Manchester Makerspace
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The most popular courses on GitHub
Thousands of teachers use GitHub to host their courses, distribute assignments, and get insight into student progress. Between Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and custom lessons from individual teachers, there's plenty of materials for new teachers to adapt and reuse in their classrooms.
Teachers from Tufts, Duke and Loyola Marymount show their GitHub workflows at SIGCSE 2018
Nearly every conversation the GitHub Education team had with teachers at SIGCSE 2018 (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) touched on the themes of communication, iteration, and real-world tools.…
How to use group assignments in GitHub Classroom
Like professional developers working together on code, students can use GitHub Classroom to collaborate on group projects in a shared repository. In this post, we’ll walk you through how teachers…
Commit with confidence with new teacher training from GitHub
To support teachers who want to master GitHub, we’ve launched Campus Advisors—a training program built to help you commit with confidence and teach your students with real-world tools. Our inspiration…
My first semester using GitHub at Rice University
In the third programming course in the computer science major, Dan Wallach wants students to master programming in Java with a high degree of rigor and at a large scale.…
Life as a GitHub Intern: the Making of GitHub Field Day
Wilhelm Klopp is a student at University College London (UCL), a Campus Expert, and creator of Simple Poll—one of the most popular Slack integrations. He spent the summer of 2017…
Mapping crises for the American Red Cross and the UN with GitHub
How many students can help solve urgent problems within weeks of writing their first lines of code? In Taichi Furuhashi's “Introduction to Spatial Information Systems I” at Aoyama Gakuin University…
Teaching efficient collaboration at the Hasso Plattner Institute
If you’re looking for a real-world approach to computer science education in Germany, you can find it at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, which offers a practical and…
Innovating in the liberal arts: code as language at Bard College
Bard College is not a technical research university. In fact, when students arrive on campus, most say they’ve had no experience with computer science. Professors Keith O’Hara and Sven Anderson…
Student leaders, join us at GitHub Field Day in San Francisco
GitHub presents Field Day—a one-day unconference for leaders of technical student communities. Students will share how they build communities, learn from each other’s successes and mistakes, and explore how they…
Learn by doing at Cal Poly with GitHub and Raspberry Pi
Professor Chris Lupo has taught at California Polytechnic State University for eight years and recently revamped his upper-level Architecture course using GitHub Classroom. In this post, he shares his workflow…
Sentry joins the Student Developer Pack
School may be (almost) out for summer, but we're still adding to the Student Developer Pack. Sentry is now offering error reporting to new and existing pack members—send up to…
How to grade programming assignments on GitHub
Feedback is essential to the learning process. Input from an expert at the right time can make all the difference in a software project. In past programming classes, Professor John…
Teaching recursion with fractals at Lowell High School
Mikaela Marciales, a junior at Lowell High School in San Francisco and member of the JROTC, reflects on her projects in AP computer science as equal parts expression and fun—in…