Git from the inside out
> from inside out<p>As a physicist it always surprises me how thinking between physicist and programmers most of the time is kind of reversed. Most git tutorials seem like this to me (Mechanics analogy):<p><pre><code>   1. Slopes
   2. Springs and gears
   3. Horrendous contraptions
   4. Ropes and pulleys
   ...
   9. Newton I., II. and III.
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These kind of "inside out" tutorials are natural for me and recently I taught git basics to my SO in a similar way. It worked out well (she is a physicist too). I don't want to generalize though, it's maybe rooted in the common ways of teaching programming and physics.