Getting Started with Git and GitHub
Completed by Federico Ledesma
May 27, 2026
10 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
Describe version control and its place in social and collaborative coding and in DevOps.
Explain basic Git concepts such as repositories and branches used for distributed version control and social coding.
Create GitHub repositories and branches, and perform pull requests (PRs) and merge operations, to collaborate on a team project.
Build your portfolio by creating and sharing an open-source project on GitHub.
Skills you will gain
- Category: Open Source Technology
- Category: Software Versioning
- Category: GitHub
- Category: Collaborative Software
- Category: DevOps
- Category: Version Control
- Category: Git (Version Control System)
- Category: Command-Line Interface
