Synchronization Question

[Mark Johanson]

What would be a good choice to sync 2 directories?

I am taking a class in web coding and I wanted to sync a
directory on a thumbdrive and a directory on my laptop. This way
both are always up to date. 

I thought about using rsync but I'm not sure if this would be
the best choice (having never used it before). Would this be a
bit over powered for the simple thing I want to do or is this my
best choice?