GitHub Essential Training: 1 The Basics

Course details

If you’re looking to get started with GitHub, you’ve come to the right place. In this course, instructor Jerome Hardaway shows you the skills you need to know to get up and running with the industry-standard tool for collaborating on coding projects and sharing work in real time. Learn how to use the wide variety of features built into GitHub that support and enhance the modern software pipeline, leveraging the extensibility of the GitHub ecosystem which lets you customize and enhance existing workflows. Get a brief introduction to the GitHub command line to find out how to create, read, update, delete, fork, and clone a repo on your own. Jerome covers the basics of recharged repos, managing a GitHub project board, and how to create and work with GitHub issues. Upon completing this course, you’ll be prepared to start using GitHub on all kinds of coding projects, modifying your workflow as you go.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Enhance your GitHub skills

1. Introduction to GitHub CLI

02 - What is GitHub CLI
03 - Installing GitHub command line locally
04 - Create a repo with GitHub CLI
05 - Read or view your repo from the command line
06 - Cloning repos with GitHub CLI
07 - Fork a repo from CLI
08 - Delete a repo
09 - Looking at the issue list
10 - Opening the browser with GitHub CLI

2. Recharged Repos

11 - What is a repo
12 - Making a repo in the browser
13 - Making repo in codespaces
14 - Setting up your repo for success
15 - Profile README repository

3. GitHub Project Board

16 - What are GitHub project boards
17 - Create a project board
18 - View and edit your project board
19 - Managing Items
20 - Understanding fields
21 - Customize your views
22 - Copy your project board
23 - Managing the project board
24 - Adding project to repo
25 - Closing and deleting projects

4. Github Issues

26 - What are Github issues
27 - Creating an issue
28 - Introduction to tasklists
29 - Link PR to issue
30 - Create a branch from Issue
31 - Filter and search issues
32 - Close and delete issues
33 - Pin important issues

Conclusion

34 - Next steps

GitHub Essential Training: 1 The Basics

Authors

Jerome Hardaway