Get Help, Give Help

If you have the opportunity, find a friend to work with you on your project. You will actually learn more by working with a friend than you would by trying to do all the work yourself. If you don’t already have an idea for a project to work on, you can help your friend with his or her project. You and your friend will have different ideas about how things should be done, and you can learn from each other. Perhaps the most important reason to collaborate with someone else is to learn how to work with another person on a software project. Programming might seem like a solitary activity, but really, programming is best done in groups. The next chapter introduces you to Git, which is an important software collaboration tool. Collaborating ...

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