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Introduction to GitHub for Developers
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Explore GitHub Collaboration, Flow, Branching, Workflows, Repositories & More
ID:TTDV7551
Duration:2 Days
Level:Introductory
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What You'll Learn

Overview

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Introduction to GitHub for Developers is a fast-paced hands-on course that provides students with a solid overview of Git and GitHub the web-based version control repository hosting service. While the examples in this class are related to computer code, GitHub can be used for other content. It offers the complete distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features. It provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug tracking, feature requests, task management, and wikis for every project. 

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Objectives

This course is approximately 50% hands-on lab to lecture ratio, combining engaging expert lessons, demos and group discussions with real-world, skills-focused machine-based labs and exercises.  Working in a hands-on learning environment led by our expert team, students will explore: 

  • Getting Started with Collaboration 
  • Understanding the GitHub Flow 
  • Branching with Git 
  • Local Git Configuration 
  • Working Locally with Git 
  • Collaborating on Your Code 
  • Merging Pull Requests 
  • Viewing Local Project History 
  • Streaming Your Workflow with Aliases 
  • Workflow Review Project: GitHub Games 
  • Resolving Merge Conflicts 
  • Working with Multiple Conflicts 
  • Searching for Events in Your Code 
  • Reverting Commits 
  • Helpful Git Commands 
  • Viewing Local Changes 
  • Creating a New Local Repository 
  • Fixing Commit Mistakes 
  • Rewriting History with Git Reset 
  • Merge Strategies: Rebase 
  • Understanding GitHub Actions  
  • Working with Workflows  
  • Managing Jobs and Steps within a Workflow 
  • Dealing with complex Workflows 

 

Audience

This class assumes some prior experience with Git, plus basic coding or programming knowledge. 

Pre-Requisites

This class assumes some prior experience with Git, plus basic coding or programming knowledge. 

 

Take Before: Attending students should have skills equivalent to those in the course(s) listed below or attend as a pre-requisite: 

  • TTDV7550 Introduction to Git | Git Quick Start  

Agenda

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We will work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most. Topics, agenda, and labs are subject to change, and may adjust during live delivery based on audience interests, participation, and skill-level. 

 

Getting Started with Collaboration 

  • What is GitHub? 
  • The GitHub Ecosystem 
  • What is Git? 
  • Exploring a GitHub Repository 
  • Using GitHub Issues 
  • Activity: Creating A GitHub Issue 
  • Using Markdown 

 

Understanding the GitHub Flow 

  • The Essential GitHub Workflow 

 

Branching with Git 

  • Branching Defined 
  • Activity: Creating a Branch with GitHub 
  • Introduction 
  • Class Diagram 
  • Interaction Diagrams 
  • Sequence Diagrams 
  • Communication Diagrams 
  • State Machine Diagrams 
  • Activity Diagram 
  • Implementation Diagrams 

 

Local Git Configuration 

  • Checking your Git version 
  • Git Configuration Levels 
  • Viewing your configurations 
  • Configuring your username and email 
  • Configuring autocrif 

 

Working Locally with Git 

  • Creating a Local copy of the repo 
  • Our favorite Git command: git status 
  • Using Branches locally 
  • Switching branches 
  • Activity: Creating a New File 
  • The Two Stage Commit 

 

Collaborating on Your Code 

  • Pushing your changes to GitHub 
  • Activity: Creating a Pull Request 
  • Exploring a Pull Request 
  • Activity: Code Review 

 

Merging Pull Requests 

  • Merge Explained 
  • Merging Your Pull Request 
  • Updating Your Local Repository 
  • Cleaning Up the Unneeded Branches 

 

Viewing Local Project History 

  • Using Git Log 

 

Streaming Your Workflow with Aliases 

  • Creating Custom Aliases 

 

Workflow Review Project: GitHub Games 

  • User Accounts vs. Organization Accounts 
  • Introduction to GitHub Pages 
  • What is a Fork? 
  • Creating a Fork 
  • Workflow Review: Updating the README.md 

 

Resolving Merge Conflicts 

  • Local Merge Conflicts 

 

Working with Multiple Conflicts 

  • Remote Merge Conflicts 
  • Exploring 

 

Searching for Events in Your Code 

  • What is Git bisect?  
  • Finding the bug in your project 

 

Reverting Commits 

  • How Commits are made 
  • Safe operations 
  • Reverting Commits 

 

Helpful Git Commands 

  • Moving and Renaming Files with Git 
  • Staging Hunks of Changes 

 

Viewing Local Changes 

  • Comparing changes with the Repository 

 

Creating a New Local Repository 

  • Initializing a new local repository 

 

Fixing Commit Mistakes 

  • Revising your last commit 

 

Rewriting History with Git Reset 

  • Understanding reset 
  • Reset Modes 
  • Reset Soft 
  • Reset Mixed 
  • Reset Hard 
  • Does gone really mean gone? 

 

Getting it Back 

  • You just want that one commit 
  • Oops, I didn't mean to reset 

 

Merge Strategies: Rebase 

  • About Git rebase 
  • Understanding Git Merge Strategies 
  • Creating a Linear History 

 

GitHub Actions 

  • Workflows 
  • Events 
  • Jobs 
  • Steps 
  • Runners 

 

Complex Workflows 

  • Adding scripts to your workflow 
  • Using variables 
  • Sharing data between jobs 
  • Working with dependencies 
  • Working with Services 

 

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