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# Welcome!

BACKGROUND: CHALLENGE

BACKGROUND: NEED

This course is designed to address these issues. We use a variety of
learning activities like code-along sessions (instructor and learner
coding together), reading activities, discussions, a few presentations,
hands-on exercises, as well as a final group project. This website
contains all of the material for the course, from reading material to
exercises to images. It is structured as a book, with "chapters" as
lessons, given in order of appearance. We make heavy use of the website
throughout the course where code-along sessions follow the material on
the website nearly exactly (with slight modifications for time or more
detailed explanations).

The course material was created using [Quarto](https://quarto.org/) to
write the lessons and create the book format,
[GitHub](https://github.com/) to host the [Git](https://git-scm.com/)
repository of the material, and [GitHub
Actions](https://github.com/features/actions) with
[Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/) to create and host the website. The
original source material for this course is found on the
[`git4cats`](https://github.com/rostools/git4cats) GitHub
repository.

Want to contribute to this course? Check out the
[README](https://github.com/rostools/git4cats/blob/main/README.md)
file as well as the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/rostools/git4cats/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
file on the GitHub repository for more details. The main way to
contribute is by using [GitHub](https://github.com/) and creating a [new
Issue](https://github.com/rostools/git4cats/issues/new) to make
comments and give feedback for the material.

## Re-use and licensing {#licensing}

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The course is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) so
the material can be used, re-used, and modified, as long as there is
attribution to this source.