Getting Started with Git and GitHub
Completed by Mirko Cangiano
November 12, 2025
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: DevOps
- Category: Collaborative Software
- Category: Version Control
- Category: GitHub
- Category: Command-Line Interface
- Category: Software Versioning
- Category: Git (Version Control System)
