Here’s a comment I wrote on /r/UCSantaBarbara a month ago. Learning Git is a very valuable tool for any aspiring or lazy programmer.

http://www.reddit.com/r/UCSantaBarbara/comments/1b93tr/ucsb_cs_faq/

At my current place of somewhat employment, the candidates for our internship offering job did not know how to use Git. I hope my post will have changed something.