Git Started with GitHub

Name: Git Started with GitHub
Rating: 4.3 (17625 reviews)

Learn the basics of Git and GitHub, with clear, step-by-step instructions by a highly rated teacher.

Free tutorial

(17,625 ratings)

216,680 students

1hr 3min of on-demand video

Created by Jason Taylor

English

Save project changes into source control using Git

Create a new repository on GitHub

Copy a repository from GitHub onto a local computer for using with a project

Install and configure Git on Windows and Mac computer systems

Requirements

Basic computer skills
Ability to install software, which may require admin rights

Description

This course is designed to jump right into showing how Git and GitHub work together, focusing on the Git basic workflow. Students can expect to learn the minimum needed to start using Git in about 30 minutes.

Recent Updates:

October 16th: Added Updates and Errata Section

Course Outline

Course Introduction and Overview provides an introduction to this course and the key concepts with the Git source control system.

Installation provides step-by-step instructions on how to setup Git for Windows and Mac OS X, how to use Git's help command.

After the Installation section, we walk through the entire Git basic workflow -- starting off in GitHub, working locally, and then publishing our changes back to GitHub.

Finally, I have some parting words and some bonus content!

Course Features

Presentations provide audio/video training of conceptual ideas. Since few like slide-ware presentations, slide-presentations are kept to a minimum.

Screencasts provide a video of the instructor's computer system with any actions, commands, or screens displayed and narrated.

Following each lecture or group of related lectures in the demo sections of the course are Command Listing lectures that serve as reference and reminder of the commands used in the previous lecture(s). Each Command Listing includes the exact listings used in the previous lectures and a reference guide for newly introduced commands. All commands used in this course are available through the Command Listing lectures.

Several attachments throughout the course provide supplemental information, illustrations, or other reference material.

Who this course is for:

Anyone interested in Git and/or source control
Software Engineers and Developers not yet using Git for source control
IT Managers that need an understanding about how Git works

Featured review

Steven G.

12 courses

4 reviews

3 years ago

Overall this course was very enjoyable. The Instructor is very easy to understand, and covered all the core concepts. I would recommend this course to anyone getting started in programming. It is an invaluable skill once mastered.

Jason Taylor

Lead Software Engineer, Dev Trainer (19 courses,50k reviews)

4.4 Instructor Rating
98,099 Reviews
611,109 Students
19 Courses

With nearly 20 years of programming and software development experience, I started out teaching myself programming while in High School. I put myself through college working for a local Internet Service Provider as a programmer. Before finishing college, I developed and sold an award winning website to a Dot-Com start-up. After college, I have worked at several companies ranging from start-ups to large enterprises focusing on Java and client-side technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript). Throughout my career, I have opportunity to learn many software development best practices and exposure to several version control systems.