
Install git across macOS, Linux, and Windows by downloading from git-scm, verify with git --version, and set Visual Studio Code as the default editor for GitHub workflows.
Master how to create and clone git repositories, inspect public projects, and manage code with git init, git status, and git clone. Learn private repo access with tokens.
Learn to create and clone repositories via git, GitHub.com, or GitHub desktop, including private and public repos, and complete the day one exercise with a personal access token.
Explore Git and GitHub in practice on day five by mastering stash, push/pull workflows, remote branches, and GitHub features, including pull requests and actions.
Explore common workflow patterns from single branch workflows to branch based development, showing how teams use master or main branches, feature branches, and pull requests to manage merges on GitHub.
Explore GitHub actions, a CI/CD platform that automates build, test, and deployment via event-driven workflows. Learn how runners and jobs utilize YAML files to automate pull requests and issues.
Understanding how to use Git and GitHub is now a basic requirement for any developer, but so many courses take forever to teach you anything of value! Unlike those other courses, we've specifically designed this course to teach you the 10% of Git commands that you use 90% of the time! When you're just starting off with git you don't want to waste time learning about commands you hardly ever use, especially when you could always easily look them up later. Instead this course focuses on giving you a Bootcamp style approach to turn you into a PRO in just ONE WEEK!
Why learn Git and GitHub?
Git and GitHub allow you to easily keep different versions of a large codebase organized. When working almost any job as a developer, understanding git and GitHub is an essential skill. It's also one of the very first things you need to know to hit the ground running at a new position, which is why this course is specifically designed to get you from zero to hero in just 5 days! We've designed the course in a 5 day format so you can get up and running in just one work week.
Why choose this course?
Many other courses waste time covering the same topics over and over again in a dull and repetitive format, instead of focusing on what you need to know in the real world! We've designed this course for someone who just started a new developer role and needs to get up to speed on git and GitHub in their first week, which is why the sections are organized in a 5 day format. With just approximately one hour a day you can go from Zero to Hero with git and GitHub!
What's covered in this course?
We cover a wide variety of the most important topics in git and GitHub, including:
Understanding Version Control
Git and GitHub Setup
Code Repository Basics
Snapshots and Applications
Basic git commands
Working with Branches
Merges and Changes
Cloning Repos
Understanding git stash
Checking for differences between commits
Using git as an organization
Throughout the course you'll be provided with example code, diagrams, and slides so you have easy to understand references you can come back to whenever you need.
Enroll today and we'll see you inside the course!