Introduction to GitHub for Developers

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

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.

1. 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

2. Understanding the GitHub Flow

• The Essential GitHub Workflow

3. 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

4. Local Git Configuration

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

5. 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

6. Collaborating on Your Code

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

7. Merging Pull Requests

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

8. Viewing Local Project History

• Using Git Log

9. Streaming Your Workflow with Aliases

• Creating Custom Aliases

10. 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

11. Resolving Merge Conflicts

• Local Merge Conflicts

12. Working with Multiple Conflicts

• Remote Merge Conflicts
• Exploring

13. Searching for Events in Your Code

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

14. Reverting Commits

• How Commits are made
• Safe operations
• Reverting Commits

15. Helpful Git Commands

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

16. Viewing Local Changes

• Comparing changes with the Repository

17. Creating a New Local Repository

• Initializing a new local repository

18. Fixing Commit Mistakes

• Revising your last commit

19. Rewriting History with Git Reset

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

20. Getting it Back

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

21. Merge Strategies: Rebase

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

22.  GitHub Actions

• Workflows
• Events
• Jobs
• Steps
• Runners

23.  Complex Workflows

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