Introduction to GitHub for Developers (TTDV7551)

Explore GitHub Collaboration, Flow, Branching, Workflows, Repositories & More

Course Code: TTDV7551

Skill Level: Introductory

Duration: 2 Days

Course Overview

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.

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

Need different skills or topics? If your team requires different topics or tools, additional skills or custom approach, this course may be further adjusted to accommodate. We offer additional GIT, DevOps, Docker, container, security, programming, and other related topics that may be blended with this course for a track that best suits your needs.

Course Objectives

This course is approximately 50% hands-on, combining expert lecture, real-world demonstrations and group discussions with machine-based practical 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

Course Prerequisites

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

Take Before:

TTDV7550 Introduction to Git / Git Quick Start – 1 day

Please see the Related Courses tab for specific Pre-Requisite courses, Related Courses that offer similar skills or topics, and next-step Learning Path recommendations.

Course 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.

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

Course Materials

Student Materials: Each participant will receive a digital Student Guide and/or Course Notes, code samples, software tutorials, step-by-step written lab instructions (as applicable), diagrams and related reference materials and resource links. Students will also receive the project files (or code, if applicable) and solutions required for the hands-on work.

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