GitHub Basics

About this Course

GitHub is a collaboration platform built on top of a distributed version control system called Git and is the best place to share & collaborate on code. In this course, you will learn how to use the key features of GitHub to showcase your coding projects, work with others, and get into Open Source. First, learn how to navigate the site and explore open source software. Then, learn how to host your own personal projects and some best practices for developing code collaboratively. You will also cover how to use GitHub as a professional on a team and how to get started contributing to open source.

What you'll learn

• Create a new repository
• The different GitHub Tools
• Working as an individual
• Using GitHub on a team
• GitHub Open Source

Teachers

• Kyle Daigle

  Kyle is a software engineer on GitHub’s Platform team building GitHub’s APIs and webhooks. You can find him on GitHub and Twitter as @kdaigle.

• Alyson La

  Alyson is a former accountant who used GitHub to learn to code & now works as a Data Analyst. You can find her on GitHub as @alysonla & on twitter @realalysonla.

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