Family Journal 588AZ - SUPER PRIDE! Zach learns GitHub

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Friday I woke up at 4:30, and Zach, my 11 year old son, was awake. Slightly groggy, in disbelief, I say “Zach - what is going on? Go to bed! you have school in 4 hours. Go to bed!”. He reported proudly, “can’t I already had my Yorkshire gold tea (for some reason this is caffination of choice, think red bull or mountain dew for most programmers)”.

This blog is pretty technical, but will be fun for my tech friends

Accepting my fate:

  • Igor: (Sigh…), What are you doing?
  • Zach: Working on my game
  • Igor: (Damn, that’s cool.)
  • Zach’s website has CI/CD on GitHub, but he’s never used that.
  • Zach: Can you deploy it for me?
  • Igor: (I don’t want to encourage this not sleeping). I’m happy to deploy it after school.
  • Zach: Come on, that sucks. Can I do it myself
  • Igor: (Figuring there’s no way Zach’ll figure it out, I give him a short answer). OK, you’ll need to stage, commit, create a pull request, then accept the merge.

Thinking we’re done I head off to work, I check my e-mail, and it’s full of merge requests on Sept 13 2021. Turns out Zach figured this out, but he didn’t have local HTML previews so had to deploy to see what it looked like, and commit again (groan, the dreaded I can only preview in production). I’m super proud, and continue on my day.

Coming home from work ..

  • Zach: I created a GitHub project to track feature requests.
  • Igor: What?
  • Zach: Yeah, it’s like Trello.
  • Igor: What? How do you know what Trello is! You’re 11!

I check my computer…

He even made me some tasks. For example: Zacookie testing fork not connected to any website #21 And at 11, he’s discovered the age old question asked by every programmer, is this a issue or a task.

I also like how he added “themes” along with descriptions in the title:

Most humorously, I was talking to my buddy (bragging really), I was like I need to think deeply about how to keep him motivated, and the friend responded ….

FYI: I created the comic strip using Comic Strip Creator

Have a great week, and remember - Once your kid learns GitHub, get him in a programming club - ZiaT