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Git and GitHub for Beginners - Version Control & Management

Name: Git and GitHub for Beginners - Version Control & Management
Rating: 4.5 (11 reviews)

Learn the complete Git and GitHub environment master managing your projects and your team like a professional developer!

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Created byNorbert B. Menyhart

Last updated 8/2024

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What you'll learn

Learn everything you need to work with Git, from repositories, commits, branches, push and pull requests and much more
Understand the in & outs of Git and how it works behind the scenes from understanding local & remote as well as local-tracking & remote-tracking branches
Become a efficiently projects manager with Git & GitHub by managing your teams pull requests and comparing different branches of the project
Create and publish your own website on GitHub using GitHub Pages
Learn to collaborate with projects via Git & GitHub and contribute to open source repositories

Course content

9 sections • 83 lectures • 5h 27m total length

Introduction2:12
Course Overview4:04
Course Terminologies2:03
What is Git0:44
Learn what Git is, a free open source distributed version control system for tracking changes in code and enabling fast, data-integrity driven collaboration.
What is GitHub1:26
Why learn Git and GitHub2:58

Section overview2:38
In this section you will learn how to interact with your Mac or PC by using only text based commends.
GUI vs Text Commands2:03
In this lecture you will learn what a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is.
Mac Terminology1:17
Mac Terminal basics6:01
Master Mac terminal basics by navigating directories, using pwd, ls, and cd, and leveraging autocomplete and capitalization rules to move between user folders and applications.
Mac Terminal Accessing Folders2:56
Mac Terminal Creating and Deleting Files/Directories6:39
Mac Terminal Flagging & Removing Files/Folders4:39
Explore mac terminal basics: view file sizes with ls, create a test file, and delete directories recursively with rm -R, understanding its destructive and irreversible effects.
Mac Terminal Copying, Moving, Renaming Files/Directories6:07
Mac Terminal Recap and cheatsheet5:26
Explore Mac terminal basics with a recap of cd navigation, ls variants for listing files, and disk space commands. Manage files and directories using mkdir, rm, touch, cp, and mv.
Windows Terminology4:49
Windows ( cmd ) basic navigation7:54
Win cmd Absolute and Relative Navigation3:43
Windows cmd Creating and Deleting Files/Folders4:56
Windows cmd copy and Move Files/Folders5:58
Win commands recap and summary2:35
Recap Windows command prompt basics: navigate with cd and relative paths (recommended), create, delete, copy, and move files and folders, and compare cmd with PowerShell.
Useful links & Resources for Mac And Windows

Manage a project using only commands
Section overview2:14
In this section we are going to focus only on git and the basics of git version management and work flow with Git.
How Git works4:15
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Working locally vs repository1:24
Learn how the working directory and repository differ, and how changes move from the working directory to the staging area, then to commit, before reaching the Git file hidden folder.
Branching1:48
Installing Git on Windows5:42
Installing Git on Mac2:49
Install VS Code7:19
Install and configure Visual Studio Code across macOS, Windows, and Linux; explore extensions, themes, and terminals, and start a basic Git/GitHub project by creating folders and markdown files.
What is a Repository, how initializing and committing works7:50
Adding to the Repository3:25
Commiting to a Repository3:30
Logging the Repository6:31
Creating and Working with Branches7:00
Merging different branches2:24
What is HEAD in Git?3:09
Understand how head tracks the current branch when switching branches with git checkout. See how head points to the tip of the active branch and how a detached head occurs.
What is detached HEAD in Git3:59
Switching Branches in Git2:02
Deleting date form Working directory2:30
How to Undo Unstaged Changes4:55
Undo unstaged changes with git checkout for files, use git restore for onstage changes and the initial state, and use git clean to remove new files, with status checks.
How to Undo staged Changes3:26
Learn to undo staged changes with git restore --staged, manage the staging area with status checks, and prepare for deleting commits across multiple files.
How to delete commits in Git using git reset4:51
Explore deleting commits in git using reset commands, including soft and hard resets, and see how they affect the head, staging area, and working directory.
How to delete a branch in Git3:13
How to ignore files and directories to be tract in Git6:36

Section overview1:22
How git & GitHub work together1:51
Explore how git provides distributed version control with commits, branches, and history, and how GitHub enables cloud hosting, pushing, pulling, and collaborating on private or public repositories.
From a local repository to a remote repository2:41
Create a GitHub Account and UI Overview8:49
Connecting and pushing to your repository5:09
Connect your development environment to GitHub, initialize a local repo, add and commit changes, set the remote origin, and push updates to the main branch.
Pushing history and branches4:41
Remote and local tracking of branches7:47
Create a local tracking branch5:19
Create a local tracking branch that tracks a remote branch on origin using git branch --track, then switch, commit, and push.
From Local-Remote Workflow important commands3:16
From Remote to local repositories with "Cloning"8:53
What is the upstream, branches with and without it.3:38
Deleting branches and public commits7:44
Recap1:59

Section overview1:04
Explore how GitHub enables collaborative work, learn the difference between public and private repositories, fork repositories, create pull requests, and merge changes into the main branch.
Public vs privet repositories3:10
Changing Public to Private Repo5:16
Forking a existing repository, fork workflow6:35
Creating a pull request for a repository3:15
Merging pull request branches1:59
Adding Collaborators to repositories1:45
Removing Collaborators from repositories1:18
Contributing to open source3:53

Section overview1:04
What is GitHub Pages and how it works4:43
Create your own website on GitHub using GitHub pages3:12
Static site generator on GitHub3:53
Learn to use Jekyll, a static site generator with built-in GitHub Pages support, to convert markdown and html into a themed, publishable website and manage it via GitHub settings.
Adding more content to your GitHub Pages19:23
Optional! Contribute to the website.0:07
Unpublishing a GitHub Pages website1:15

Requirements

PC or Mac Basics knowledge

Description

What is Version Control?

What is Git?

What is GitHub?

Why Should I learn Git and GitHub ?

All this questions are answered here.

Git and GitHub are essential tools that sooner or later each developer needs to learn.

Hi! My name is Norbert and this is my Git and GitHub for complete beginners course.

Eider you are a freelancer or work at a company the probabilities that you will collaborate with others on a project or multiple projects, are prate hi to most certain. Even if you go full lonely wolf you still need some sort of backup, redundancy, version control and remote repository system.

No matter if you're just getting started with (web) development, or applying for a developer job or if you just need to refresh your knowledge on Git and GitHub, version control and version management are a core skills and a must know for all developers.

The best toll on the market for version control are Git and GitHub, and they are the most popular version management and repository systems. Also the synergy between Git and GitHub makes them a reliable source for remote work. Also combining them with Microsoft Visual Studio Code will increase your development speed.

This course will guide you from a complete beginner with 0 knowledge of Git and GitHub, to be confident and efficient when working with version control and version management systems.

Prier Knowledge?

Absolutely No prier knowledge is required.

What will you learn ?

Essential Mac and Windows terminal commends for
- Accessing files and directories using the Mac Terminal and Windows cmd
- Creating and Deleting files and directories using the Mac Terminal and Windows cmd
- Flagging files and directories using the Mac Terminal and Windows cmd
- Copying, Renaming and Moving files and directories using the Mac Terminal and Windows cmd
What is Git and version management
- How Git works and how to install git on Mac and PC
- How to create a repository in git
- How to add, commnit and log your commits to a git repository
- What are branches, how to create, merge and delete branches
- How .gitignore works
What is GitHub remote control
- How git and GitHub work together
- How to go from a local repository to a remote repository
- How to create a GitHub Account, and your first Remote repository
- How to connect and pushing to your repository, also log your pushing history and branches
- What are Remote and local tracking branches
- How to create a local tracking branch
- From Local-Remote Workflow important commands
- From Remote to local repositories with "Cloning"
- What is the upstream, branches with and without
- How to delete branches and public commits
How GitHub collaboration works
- What the difference between Public and Privat Repositories is
- How to change a Public to a private repository and back
- How to Fork a repository
- How to create a pull request, accepting and merging the pull request to the main branch
- How to add and remove collaborators from a repository
- How to contribute to open source projects and repositories
How you can host your websites on GitHub
- What is GitHub Pages and how it works
- How to create a website using GitHub pages
- What is a static site generator and how to create a static website and host it on GitHub
- How to add more content to a website by adding multiple pages
- How to publish and unpublish your website using GitHub Pages.
Real World Projects
- Create and contribute to a modern-landing-page repository
- Contribute to the BarniCoin-Blockchain (NOT A REAL BLOCKCHAIN)

Who this course is for:

Beginner or Web developers
Front End Web Developers
Back End Web developers
Full Stack Developers
Project managers

Git and GitHub for Beginners - Version Control & Management

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Course content

Introduction6 lectures • 13min

Mac and Windows terminal commends16 lectures • 1hr 8min

Git and version management22 lectures • 1hr 31min

GitHub and remote controlled13 lectures • 1hr 3min

GitHub collaboration9 lectures • 28min

Hosting websites on GitHub7 lectures • 34min

Real Collaborative Project6 lectures • 20min

Project add to the BarniCoin Blockchain3 lectures • 10min

Extra content1 lecture • 1min

Requirements

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