People use GitHub to build some of the most advanced technologies in the world. Whether you’re visualizing data or building a new game, there’s a whole community and set of tools on GitHub that can help you do it even better.
Now, with GitHub Learning Lab, you’ve got a sidekick along your path to becoming an all-star developer.
From managing notifications to merging pull requests, GitHub Learning Lab’s “Introduction to GitHub” course guides you through everything you need to start contributing in less than an hour. See a word you don't understand? We've included an emoji 📖 next to some key terms. Click on it to see its definition.
We'll answer common questions like:
- What is GitHub?
- How does one use GitHub?
- What are issues and pull requests?
- How do you create a branch and a commit?
- How do you use GitHub Pages?
And when you're done you'll be able to:
- Communicate in issues
- Manage notifications
- Create branches
- Make commits
- Introduce changes with pull requests
- Deploy a web page to GitHub pages
- Completed source repository
- Interactive slideshow deployed to GitHub Pages.
None. This course is a great introduction for your first day on GitHub.
This makes use of the following open source projects. Consider exploring these repos and maybe even making contributions!
- reveal.js: A framework for creating presentations using HTML
- Jekyll: a simple, blog-aware, static site generator.
New developers, new GitHub users, users new to Git, students, managers, teams