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by alickz 1208 days ago
I don't think it's reasonable to blacklist the most popular VCS website used among developers. It's a competition for devs, they _should_ be using version control.

All it would take is a cursory glance by another dev to know if they used templating or not, which I would consider baseline for a developer contest.

The article says their teacher just seen it was on GitHub and disqualified them off the bat. Unreasonable imo
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HWR_14 1208 days ago
They hosted it on GitHub. Not stored the source there. Hosted it.

Besides, I would say that teaching people how to use version control is good. But there are lots of non-GitHub solutions. Prefer those for students! Teach them the fundamentals.

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