GitHub Codespaces: First Look
32mBeginner2020-12-04
Authors

Walt Ritscher
Programmer, UI Designer, Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning
Course details
With GitHub Codespaces, a cloud development environment available in your browser, you can start coding faster and contribute code anywhere (and on any machine). In this course, get a first look at Codespaces, as well as how taking a cloud-based approach to programming can transform the way you work. Instructor Walt Ritscher explains how each codespace is associated with one branch of a GitHub repository, as well as how to create your own codespace and view it in the Visual Studio Code application. Walt also highlights how Codespaces provides an easy way to spin up an application container, how to commit and push changes from a codespace repository to GitHub, how to customize the Codespaces code editor, and more. Tune in to learn how to start developing entirely in the cloud with Codespaces.
Skills covered
CodespacesFirst LookVersion ControlGitHubSoftware Development ToolsSoftware Development
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Take your first look at GitHub Codespaces
- 02 - Beta availability
1. Explore Codespaces
- 03 - Codespaces are per repository
- 04 - Codespaces benefits
- 05 - How Codespaces leverages Docker
- 06 - Create a codespace
- 07 - Open a codespace
- 08 - The browser Visual Studio Code editor
- 09 - Edit files with Visual Studio Code
- 10 - Use Visual Studio Code on the desktop
- 11 - Use the Visual Studio Code terminal
- 12 - Use Git with codespace code
- 13 - Customize the Codespaces code editor
- 14 - Paying for Codespaces
Conclusion
- 15 - Next steps
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