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> No, you pretty much don't need to bother with version control systems unless you're writing code on a team with others.

You may not "need" to, but almost any individual project will benefit from it, also.



Right, but if you've never used one, you don't know what you're missing. The default of coding without one works just fine for most school projects.


Yet students are among those MOST confused by "it worked a minute ago; what did I change that broke it?!" Keeping your code under source control allows answering that question. A useful tool and lesson for the student.




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