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Start pointing them to guides and force them to do it themselves without your presence.
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@jacob1208 My Java teacher (very nice and down to earth guy) showed us this website when I was in school. Helped me a bunch personally back then. http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-gu...
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Happened a lot when I was in engineering. Other days, they don't care about my existence, as soon as the day of project submission comes, people flooded me with questions on basic installation procedures.
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@beggarboy Hahaha I literally have that same guide bookmarked, it's actually so helpful
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So, I'm studying computer engineering in school, so a lot of people have decided I'm the tech one in the group and come to me with all there computer problems.
I'm constantly explaining basic things about their computers, how to exit vim, why using git is a lot easier then having 100 versions of files, how to change directories from the terminal. Simple things like that and while I normally don't mind, all these people are also in computer engineering and should really know all this stuff too.
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