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This is the slidewarez for Adam Eivy's Version Control presentation to the Seattle Central Community College Byte Club on Nov 16th, 2012
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This is the slidewarez for Adam Eivy's Version Control presentation to the Seattle Central Community College Byte Club on Nov 16th, 2012

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Why Not Git Version Control?
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v2. 2014.05.27: Slidewarez for guest lecture to Mike Sinkula's HCDE437 class on May 27th, 2014. [Class information here](http://www.sccc.premiumdw.com/hcde437/)

v1. 2012.11.16: Slidewarez for Adam Eivy's Version Control presentation to the Seattle Central Community College Byte Club

Bio
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Adam Eivy keeps busy with eclectic hobbies: creating web frameworks at Disney, being a father at home, and attempting to enter the world of comics at the [Bureau of Drawers](http://thebureauofdrawers.blogspot.com/). Over the last 12 years, he has been a developer for a variety of startup companies, freelanced at his own, and [taught web development](http://ipirates.net) at Seattle Central Community College.

* Twitter: [@antic](https://twitter.com/antic)
* GitHub: [@atomantic](https://github.com/atomantic)
* Portfolio: [http://adameivy.com](http://adameivy.com) (a bit outdated but that's how things go)
* LinkedIn: [@antic](http://www.linkedin.com/in/antic)

View the Slides
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Since GitHub has support for pages, you can [view the slides hosted on GitHub](http://atomantic.github.com/slides-versioncontrol)

Kudos
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Many thanks to [bartaz](https://github.com/bartaz) for creating [impress.js](https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js) so I didn't have to :)

Props to [matthewmccullough](https://github.com/matthewmccullough) for giving me a deep understanding of Git from [his excellent training lectures](https://github.com/github/teach.github.com)

Takeaways
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A presentation only says so much. What you really need to do is this:

* [Join GitHub](https://github.com)
* [Try Git](http://try.github.com/)
* [Read the Free Git Book](http://git-scm.com/book)
* [Read about Git Flow](http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/)
* Fork something on GitHub, make a feature branch, do a pull request!

Also...

* [Learn Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics)
* [Check out Code School](http://www.codeschool.com/courses)