Learning GitHub (2023)

Course details

GitHub is the industry-standard tool for collaborating on and sharing code. It’s popular among software developers, project managers, designers, and students for its flexibility and control. This course introduces GitHub and Git, the version control system that GitHub is built upon. Instructor Emanuele Bartolesi shows how GitHub can create collaborative workflows for you and your team. Explore how version control enables you and your team to track the changes in your files, maintain a history of them, and get some advice to work better with open-source projects. Emanuele gives you the knowledge you need to be able to select appropriate projects to be pushed to GitHub, successfully initialize Git on an existing project, navigate the GitHub UI to perform common tasks like branching, commits, and pull requests, and more.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Getting started with GitHub

1. The Basics

02 - What is Git
03 - What is GitHub
04 - A lap around GitHub

2. Git from the Command Line

05 - Windows terminal
06 - Set up Git locally
07 - The first issue
08 - Create a branch
09 - The first commit
10 - The first pull request
11 - Review the pull request

3. Working with GitHub Desktop

12 - Install GitHub Desktop
13 - Getting the project with GitHub Desktop
14 - Create a branch and commit changes
15 - Create a pull request

4. Working with GitHub Command-Line Interface

16 - Install the GitHub command-line interface
17 - Start your project with GitHub CLI

5. GitHub Copilot

18 - What is GitHub Copilot
19 - Write code with an AI pair programmer

6. Deploying Websites with Git and GitHub

20 - What are GitHub Pages
21 - Publish your first website to GitHub Pages

7. Deploy to the Cloud

22 - What are GitHub Actions
23 - Create the first GitHub Actions
24 - Deploy a static website to Azure

8. Working with Codespaces

25 - What is Codespaces
26 - Start your project with GitHub Codespaces
27 - Connect to Codespaces from Visual Studio Code

Conclusion

28 - Your GitHub journey