When working to a software you should try its design at best, then write your code with or without an IDE and finally check and test your code. Let’s for the moment skip the check and test question which has its own development and concentrate on the first phases of your work. Your design was good but your coding goes trough various modifications and, sometimes, you get lost. That is the time to use a Version Control System, a tool that allows you to recover older versions of your code and track your code history. This is what summarizes this nice and free course on Coursera. A VCS is a highly recommended tool even if you work alone. there are many of VCSs but here we concentrate our attention on Git, the free and open source VCs designed and implemented by Linus Torvalds also knows as the initial developer of the Linux OS and maintainer of its kernel. If you are one who prefer to read books, there is at least one open book on Git, and you can find it here. Otherwise, the Coursera videos are certainly worth to be seen. Coursera does not only introduces Git but also Github, but we will be back on it later. An interesting short introduction to both Git and Github can be found in this short tutorial. However, if you want to face the topics orderly, please first complete the video lectures.
