Suggestion for embedding Episode 6 in storyline

[mwakok]

In the Ignoring Things episode we are creating dummy files and a directory in order to add to .gitignore. Currently, none of the material in this lesson relates to the story about Wolfman we had been following up until this point. I would like to suggest to embed this lesson in the storyline. Surely our protagonists would need to collect some data about the atmosphere on Mars that they don't want to be tracked by Git? ;)

At the very least, I believe we should relate the new files and folder to the already present directory structure. This will also ensure that we are still using the git repository we have already created. I have had some confusion arise on this before, when learners created a new folder (somewhere) that doesn't have an initialized repository.

I would like to suggest to update the first commands with (similar to Lesson 3):

cd ~/Desktop/planets
mkdir data
cd data
touch a.dat b.dat c.dat results/a.out results/b.out

This would also require a change a few commands further down, when we create the .gitignore. As this file needs to reside in the root of the repository, we would need:
nano ../.gitignore or nano ~/Desktop/planets/.gitignore

[kekoziar]

Hi, @mwakok. Will you clarify your proposal? I'm not sure what you are stating in your opening paragraphs.

In terms of a structure, I'm partial to the one proposed by Good enough practices in scientific computing, which has data and results as different folders. Usually when I teach the lesson and get to creating the files for the "ignoring things" episode, I use it as an opportunity to touch on best practices for project organization.