klancaster

I regularly teach Git to students at the senior level that are building RoR applications. Even though we only cover the basics, they seem to struggle quite a bit with both the concepts and the mechanics. They are on Windows for the most part, and are required to push their code to Bitbucket. The seniors have suggested that I introduce the topic much earlier in the curriculum in a sophomore level Java class. The students in that class have had one prior programming class, but generally are still struggling with the basics. I've been thinking about using Mercurial at the sophomore level instead of Git to see if that eases the introduction to the concepts. Any thoughts one way or the other?