GitHub Learning Lab
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Our most popular courses
Introduction to GitHub
Created by The GitHub Training Team
If you are looking for a quick and fun introduction to GitHub, you've found it. This class will get you started using GitHub in less than an hour.
Hello, GitHub Actions!
Created by GitHub
Create a GitHub Action and use it in a workflow.
Communicating using Markdown
Created by The GitHub Training Team
This course will walk you through everything you need to start organizing ideas and collaborating using Markdown, a lightweight language for text formatting.
Learning should be fun
There are no simulations or boring tutorials here, just hands-on lessons created with by the GitHub community and taught by the friendly Learning Lab bot.
Real projects
Learn new skills while working in your own copy of a real project.
Helpful bot
Our friendly bot provides instructions and feedback throughout your journey.
Real workflow
Everything happens in GitHub Issues and Pull Requests.
Learning Paths
Learn something new with these curated lists of our favorite courses, videos, tutorials, and more.
First Day on GitHub
Learning Path by The GitHub Training Team
Welcome to GitHub! We're so glad you're here. We know it can look overwhelming at first, so we've put together a few of our favorite courses for people logging in for the first time
- What is GitHub?
- Introduction to GitHub
- Git Handbook
- And 2 more...
First Week on GitHub
Learning Path by The GitHub Training Team
After you've mastered the basics, learn some of the fun things you can do on GitHub. From GitHub Pages to building projects with your friends, this path will give you plenty of new ideas.
- Discover GitHub Pages
- Reviewing pull requests
- Securing your workflows
InnerSource: theory to practice
Learning Path by The GitHub Training Team
Learn about the concept of InnerSource and put it to use in this carefully crafted learning path.
- An introduction to InnerSource
- InnerSource fundamentals
- Case studies
- And 3 more...
Become an open source enterprise
Learning Path by The GitHub Training Team
Learn about open source in the enterprise. It's about more than just contributing!
- What is open source? Explained in Legos
- The state of enterprise open source: A Red Hat report
- Create an open source program
- And 4 more...
GitHub Universe Workshops
Learning Path by The GitHub Training Team
Get ready to master GitHub Actions and learn how they can help your team integrate DevOps principles into your workflows.
- InnerSource fundamentals
- Hello, GitHub Actions!
- GitHub Actions: Continuous Integration
- And 4 more...
Ramp up on Git and GitHub
Learning Path by The GitHub Training Team
A set of resources leveraged by Microsoft employees to ramp up on Git and GitHub. Progress of this path is intended to take about 4 weeks, including 1 week of prerequisites.
- Git Handbook
- GitHub Learning Lab
- Communicating using Markdown
- And 15 more...
Learn GitHub with GitHub
GitHub Pages
Created by The GitHub Training Team
Learn how to create a site or blog from your GitHub repositories with GitHub Pages.
Community starter kit
Created by The GitHub Training Team
There are millions of projects on GitHub, all competing for attention from the millions of open source contributors available to help. Learn how to help your project stand out.
Uploading your project to GitHub
Created by The GitHub Training Team
You’re an upload away from using a full suite of development tools and premier third-party apps on GitHub. This course helps you seamlessly upload your code to GitHub and introduces you to exciting next steps to elevate your project.
Migrating your repository to GitHub
Created by The GitHub Training Team
You're a migration away from using a full suite of development tools and premier third-party apps on GitHub. This course helps you seamlessly move code to GitHub and sets you up to do more after you make the move.
Reviewing pull requests
Created by The GitHub Training Team
See how collaboration works on GitHub and start building great things, together.
Managing merge conflicts
Created by The GitHub Training Team
Merge conflicts are a normal part of working in Git. Learn why they happen and how to resolve them with ease.
Security strategy essentials
Created by The GitHub Training Team
Course repo for Learning Lab course "Security strategy essentials"
Securing your workflows
Created by The GitHub Training Team
Learn security best practices and keep your project’s contributions—and contributors—safe.
Write a Learning Lab course
Created by The GitHub Training Team
Get starter code, or let the Learning Lab bot guide you as you author your first course.
Connect the dots in a GitHub repository
Created by The GitHub Training Team
This course will teach you skills for finding relevant conversations, commits, and projects in a repository.
Languages and Tools
Introduction to HTML
Created by The GitHub Training Team
If you are looking for a quick and fun introduction to the exciting world of programming, this course is for you. Learn fundamental HTML skills and build your first webpage in less than an hour.
Introduction to Node with Express
Created by everydeveloper
Node.js gives you the ability to run JavaScript files on the server-side. Express is a library for Node.js, that allows you to make requests to different "endpoints" and get a response back.
Introduction to Python
Created by everydeveloper
Go from Hello World to writing a short random quote generator using Python.
Introduction to Ruby
Created by everydeveloper
Learn the basics of Ruby. Make a hello world program, then include if/else statements
TensorFlow Image Processing
Created by everydeveloper
Get started with Machine Learning (ML)/Neural Network (NN) tools
Introduction to Java
Created by everydeveloper
Java is an object oriented programming language, which is popular for multi-platform apps.
Introduction to PHP
Created by everydeveloper
PHP is a server-side programming language that can insert dynamic code into your HTML. PHP is used in popular content management systems, such as WordPress and Drupal.
Setting up a Reason React App
Created by Stockholm Research Center
Hello and welcome! In this lab we will cover the basic setup needed to build Reason React applications, covering testing, documenting them, building, and releasing them!
Create REST server with NodeJS and Express
Created by M3kH
Learn the basics to create an Express server and follow the REST principles.
TomTom Maps SDK for Android - Display a Map
Created by tomtom-international-labs
In this course you will learn how to create an Android application that displays a TomTom Map
Notating with LilyPond
Created by gitmusical
LilyPond is an open source technology for notating music in plain text files. In this course, we'll cover the fundamentals of music notation in LilyPond.
Introduction to React
Created by The GitHub Training Team
In this course, you will learn the basics of React.js through building a gradebook web application to manage assignments, students, and grades.
DevOps with GitHub
GitHub Actions: Continuous Delivery
Created by The GitHub Training Team
Create two deployment workflows using AWS.
Getting started with GitHub Apps
Created by The GitHub Training Team
Add your own GitHub feature, automate workflows, and more with GitHub Apps.
Continuous integration with CircleCI
Created by The GitHub Training Team
Learn how to automatically test changes made to your project, freeing you up to write more amazing code.
Continuous integration with Travis CI
Created by The GitHub Training Team
Learn about the principles of continuous integration with GitHub and Travis CI.
Enterprise on GitHub
InnerSource fundamentals
Created by The GitHub Training Team
Organizations of all sizes and in all industries are chatting about InnerSource concepts. This course walks you through some of the key concepts of InnerSource and helps you build up an internal toolkit for adopting InnerSource practices.
Create an open source program
Created by The GitHub Training Team
Learn how to work alongside the open source communities that build software you're already using, and put your business at the forefront of the world's most innovative and secure code.
Create a release based workflow
Created by The GitHub Training Team
This course focuses on releases, and more complex branching strategies.
Getting started
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