GitHub Curriculum

This repo contains a curriculum for teaching GitHub to people with some coding experience.

Learning Objectives

After completing this curriculum, students will be able to:

• Define version control and describe its use
• Describe the differences between git and GitHub
• Create and commit to local repositories
• Connect a local git repo to a GitHub repo
• Push local commits to GitHub
• Define branches
• Create and use branches as part of a standard git workflow
• Create, review, and merge pull requests on GitHub
• Understand and resolve merge conflicts
• Use branches on a team project to organize code
• Write README files in Markdown to describe their projects
• Complete a team project using Git and GitHub as their version control system of choice

Prework

See the prework page for details.

Content

• Day 1 Morning Workshop
• Day 1 Afternoon Workshop
• Day 2 Morning Workshop
• Reference: git workflow

References

Many thanks to the following:

• Git Installation instructions
• Git for Windows