Introduction to GitHub

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.

What you'll learn

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

What you'll build

• Completed source repository
• Interactive slideshow deployed to GitHub Pages.

Prerequisites

None. This course is a great introduction for your first day on GitHub.

Projects used

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.

Audience

New developers, new GitHub users, users new to Git, students, managers, teams