GitHub Ultimate: Master Git and GitHub - Beginner to Expert
Why take this course?
🚀 Course Title: GitHub Ultimate: Master Git and GitHub - Beginner to Expert 🎓
🚀 Course Headline: Go from complete novice to expert in Git and GitHub using step-by-step, no-assumptions learning!
🎉 What You'll Achieve: This course will comprehensively cover the GitHub hosting service as a companion to the Git source control tool. By the end of this course, you'll have a very solid understanding and hands-on experience with both Git 🤠 and GitHub 🌐, from the basics to advanced techniques. Plus, you'll gain practical knowledge that will make you proficient in using these powerful tools for your projects or within a team environment.
📚 Course Organization: The course is divided into four major components:
- Introduction and Setup
- Learning Git Source Control
- All About GitHub
- Bonuses
Each component spans multiple sections in this course, ensuring a thorough exploration of each topic.
✨ New!
- Video explaining how to resolve Git breaking when upgrading macOS each year.
💡 Introduction: The Introduction section provides a warm welcome to the course and some useful tips for getting the most out of your learning journey. It also covers the core concepts that lay the foundation for what's to come. After a quick installation guide for both Windows and Mac, you can dive into the course with confidence. 🎯
🚀 Learning Git Source Control:
- The Basics: Learn all the foundational commands needed to start a new project managed by Git, including commits and common file operations like moving and deleting files.
- Advanced Git: Explore topics like comparing differences, branching and merge resolution, tagging special events, saving work in progress, and even a bit of time travel! ⚑
🌐 All About GitHub: We will explore GitHub in depth from both a local and remote repository perspective.
- Welcome to GitHub: Create a fresh repository, set up SSH Authentication, and explore basic features on GitHub.
- GitHub Repository: Perform operations within GitHub that correspond to those done locally, and dive into branches and their interactions with local systems.
- GitHub Tags and Releases: Understand how tags/releases work and how they relate to local tags in Git.
- Comparing Differences: Learn how to compare differences on GitHub.
- Social Coding: Fork projects, submit pull requests, and engage with the GitHub community.
- GitHub Issues: Track defects or enhancement requests effectively.
- GitHub Gists: Share small parts of code or entire files without setting up a full repository.
- GitHub Organizations: Group related repositories and manage access and permissions using teams. 🤝
🎁 Bonuses: The bonus sections provide additional information, more comprehensive instructions, or non-critical lectures to enhance your learning experience.
🛠️ Course Features:
- All tools come with installation and configuration sections.
- Presentations offer audio/video training for conceptual ideas (as slide-presentations are minimized).
- Screencasts provide detailed video training, totaling nearly 5 hours, to step through each command or action.
- Videos are available in high quality 1080p / Full HD resolution for optimal viewing.
- Several attachments and document lectures offer supplemental information, illustrations, or other reference material.
🚀 Moving Forward: This course will continue to expand, adding more topics, supporting materials, and bonus content! Your feedback and engagement with the course discussions are highly encouraged, as they directly influence the development of new content. Let's embark on this learning adventure together and master Git and GitHub! 🚀💫
Ready to take control of your code with GitHub Ultimate? 🎉 Enroll now and become a GitHub wizard!
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Comidoc Review
Our Verdict
GitHub Ultimate: Master Git and GitHub is a valuable resource for learners seeking an understanding of Git source control system, with solid insights on managing repositories, branches, stashes among others. Though certain elements appear outdated since its initial release in 2016, this masterclass still provides essential concepts crucial to successful collaboration. However, it might not fully meet expectations for Windows users looking specifically for Visual Studio Code integration or those anticipating extensive coverage on collaborative features with GitHub.
What We Liked
- Comprehensive course covering key concepts of Git source control system
- Step-by-step guidance through entire Git workflow and various states in Git
- Hands-on lessons on managing files, creating repositories, branches, stashes & tags on GitHub
- Course content is applicable to a variety of development environments
- Instructor is knowledgeable with clear explanations and useful insights
Potential Drawbacks
- Some course materials are outdated, leading to inconsistencies with current GitHub interface
- Lack of interactive learning material and quizzes might not suit all learning styles
- Due to rapid pace, some learners may need to pause videos frequently to follow along or look up commands
- Limited focus on collaborative aspects such as forking projects & managing pull requests
- Minimal coverage of GitHub Actions in the recent updates could benefit from more details