Version-Control on The Augmented Scholar

GitHub — Version Control for Research Code

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Why Every Researcher Needs GitHub

You don’t need to be a software engineer to use GitHub. Even if your “code” is a handful of R or Python scripts, GitHub gives you:

Create Course Materials in Markdown + Pandoc

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Create Professional Course Materials in Markdown Using Pandoc — A Complete Workflow for Teachers & Professors

You’re spending hours formatting exercise sets, lab work, and quizzes in Word or Google Docs—adjusting margins, fixing font inconsistencies, regenerating the same content in three different formats. What if you could write once in Markdown and generate polished PDFs, HTML, and more in seconds?

Git and GitHub for Researchers: Version Control Your Work Without Fear

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You’ve lost work before. A hard drive failure, a file accidentally overwritten, a script that worked yesterday that doesn’t today and you have no idea what changed.

Git solves all of these. It’s a version control system — a way of saving the full history of changes to files so you can always go back, identify what changed, and collaborate without conflicts.