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Collaboration and social coding are crucial parts of contemporary Software Engineering practices and the DevOps culture.  In this course, you’ll be introduced to collaborative version control and popular Git platforms.  
You will explore key Git concepts such as branching and repositories, as well as the use of Git commands. You will also learn and practice various Git concepts such as forking, cloning and merging workflows. You will learn to use GitHub to work effectively as a team, and perform common Git operations, such as Pull Requests, from both the Web UI and command line. 

Developed and taught by experienced IBM practitioners, in this course you’ll gain vital skills and hands-on experience using Git and GitHub. Each module contains hands-on labs for you to apply and practice what you learn.  The course wraps up with a final project where you will start building your portfolio by creating and sharing a public/open-source GitHub project. 

All hands-on activities in this course can be performed using web-browser based tools and interfaces. Installation of any specialized software is NOT required on your own computer in order to complete the course.

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Beginner Level

Basic computer and IT literacy. Suitable for those new to software development. No prior programming experience is required.

Approx. 8 hours to complete

English

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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

Distributed Version Control (DRCS)
open source
Version Control Systems
Github
Git (Software)

Flexible deadlines

Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.

Shareable Certificate

Earn a Certificate upon completion

100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Coursera Labs

Includes hands on learning projects.

Learn more about Coursera Labs

Beginner Level

Basic computer and IT literacy. Suitable for those new to software development. No prior programming experience is required.

Approx. 8 hours to complete

English

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Instructors

Instructor rating

4.7/5 (94 Ratings)

Upkar Lidder

Senior Software Engineer

IBM

135,040 Learners

10 Courses

Rav Ahuja

Global Program Director

IBM Skills Network

1,548,277 Learners

35 Courses

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IBM is the global leader in business transformation through an open hybrid cloud platform and AI, serving clients in more than 170 countries around the world. Today 47 of the Fortune 50 Companies rely on the IBM Cloud to run their business, and IBM Watson enterprise AI is hard at work in more than 30,000 engagements. IBM is also one of the world’s most vital corporate research organizations, with 28 consecutive years of patent leadership. Above all, guided by principles for trust and transparency and support for a more inclusive society, IBM is committed to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1

Week 1

1 hour to complete

Git and GitHub Fundamentals

Application developers rarely work alone. Large web/cloud/mobile development and data science projects will include many people – front-end developers, back-end developers, database administrators, repository administrators, and others. Every change by every contributor must be tracked and controlled to enable collaboration, accountability and version management. This type of distributed version control is extremely important when managing both small and large software projects. In this module you will learn about some of the popular version control tools, create a GitHub account and use the GitHub web interface to create a repository, add a file to it and commit your changes.

1 hour to complete

4 videos (Total 17 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

Week2

Week 2

4 hours to complete

Using Git Commands and Managing GitHub Projects

Branches are the heart of workflows in Git-based version control systems like GitHub. In this module you will become familiar with creating and using branches, and merging your changes to the main branch with Pull Requests. As you start working with GitHub repositories and automating workflows, using the web interface can be limiting and more time-consuming. This is where Git commands come in. You can use from your own desktop or a Cloud IDE - wherever you develop your code. In this module you will also become familiar with and utilize various Git commands to clone and fork repositories, as well as commit, push and pull your changes using the command line.

4 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 14 min), 2 readings, 4 quizzes

Week3

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Final Project

3 hours to complete

1 reading

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by PMDec 14, 2022

Overall the course it very well apart from the assignment part - which I think someone should take care of it

by RKJan 19, 2023

Explanations for this course were much better than the Linux commands course and I enjoyed the final course at the end.

by AOJan 1, 2023

A wonderfully organised course and thank you for letting me do the course it was a great learning time especially for me

by FKJun 2, 2022

Good course.. This course teaches you with simple explanation but you'll get many beneficial insights in it. Thanks IBM, Thanks Coursera.

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