Lesson Title: Introduction to GitLab
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Answering the following questions, we characterize our target audience.
What is the expected educational level of our audience?
Anyone who completed school.
What type of exposure do our audience members have to the technologies we plan to teach?
Our target audience regularly work with desktop computers or laptops with graphical user interfaces.
They do not necessarily have a deep rooted understanding of the difference between a plain text file and a binary file, but they heard about it.
If we teach the version of this course using Git, they do not regularly use the console (yet), but have at least had a resent introduction to it and Git.
What types of tools do they already use?
They have collaborated with others using software, like NextCloud or shared Markdown pads over the internet.
What are the pain points they are currently experiencing?
They want to collaborate with colleagues on projects based on text files and use issue tracking to help with project management. Either the technology is about to be introduced as a tool in their work groups or it is already being used and they recently joined the group.
The following two sections describe two learner profiles that represent the lower and upper bound of previous knowledge that is sensible for learners of this lesson. If someone is less knowledgeable, they might need to learn about requirements of this lesson first, while someone that is more knowledgeable might will not only be bored but is probably better of helping teach lesson.