justingrammens/seis744-assignments

This repository is a starter template for students enrolled in Harvard's CS249r course. When a student sets it up through GitHub Classroom, they get their own private copy where they will complete and submit assignments throughout the semester. The teaching staff maintains a master version and pushes new assignments into it as the course progresses. Here is how the workflow functions: each student works in their own private copy so their work stays separate from everyone else's. When a new assignment is released, the student runs a few commands that pull the new files from the shared master version down into their personal copy. They then complete the assignment locally, save their changes, and push everything back up to their private repository on GitHub. The course staff can review each student's private repository to grade the work. The primary audience is students taking CS249r, likely a computer science or engineering course at Harvard. If you are enrolled, you would use this to receive assignments, submit completed work, and practice using Git along the way. The setup is designed to give each person an isolated workspace while keeping everyone connected to the same source of course materials. One thing worth noting is that the project leans into teaching Git itself. Rather than having students simply download files from a website, the workflow mirrors how software teams collaborate in the real world. The README includes a beginner-friendly section on installing Git, setting up a GitHub account, and learning core commands. The project functions as a practical introduction to version control alongside the actual coursework, which makes sense for a computer science class but does mean there is a learning curve for anyone new to these tools.