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Introduction
This article should handle the question why a university or other academical institutions should have a central version control system (VCS) for sharing source code. Both the educator and the learning people should have access to the same platform.
VC has many advantages: For exchange in a team, sharing your code or versionizing just your own work.
si618 makes a nice list of questions about problems that occur during programming. They all result in the same answer: VCS: