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IBM: Guided Project: GitHub and GitHub Branches for Beginners V2

Easily learn how to use GitHub, the essential version control and collaboration platform.

This hands-on guided project will have you up and running in GitHub in no time. Perfect for beginners, new developers, data scientists, and others.

Guided Project: GitHub and GitHub Branches for Beginners V2
1 weeks
1 hours per week
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
Free
Optional upgrade available

There is one session available:

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Starts Aug 29

About this course

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GitHub reports that more than 4 million organizations and 94 million developers use its platform to host more than 330 million repositories, track code changes, collaborate on solutions, contribute to open-source projects, and network with other professionals.

GitHub knowledge and skills are essential for Software Developers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, DevOps Engineers, andother IT professionals.

In this hands-on guided project, you will use available web-based options in GitHub to set up a GitHub account, create and modify repositories and branches, merge branches, and manage pull requests.

No coding experience is necessary, and by the end of this project, you will have experience with the basics of GitHub and be ready to explore GitHub’s more advanced features.

Your lab environment already has many technologies preinstalled, saving you the time and hassle of setting everything up. Also, note that this platform works best with current versions of modern browsers.

At a glance

  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English

What you'll learn

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After completing this project, you will be able to:

  • Explain why developers use GitHub
  • Create a GitHub account
  • Add a repository to GitHub
  • Create and edit a file in a GitHub repository
  • Upload and commit a file to a GitHub repository
  • Create a branch in a GitHub repository
  • Commit changes to a child branch
  • Open a pull request
  • Merge a pull request into the main branch

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