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GitHub Ultimate: Master Git and GitHub - Beginner to Expert (Udemy.com)

Go from complete novice to expert in Git and GitHub using step-by-step, no-assumptions learning

Created by: Jason Taylor

Last updated August 2022

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What you will learn

  • Learn the key concepts of the Git source control system
  • Step through the entire Git workflow
  • Compare the different states in Git
  • Manage files inside and outside the control of Git and GitHub
  • Create and manage repositories on GitHub
  • Create branches and resolve conflicts with confidence
  • Save work in progress with Stashes
  • Mark special events with Tags and Releases
  • Even a bit of time travel within Git repositories and on GitHub
  • Perform many of the same local Git operations directly on GitHub
  • Join other GitHub projects by Forking and contribute back using Pull Requests
  • Review and Accept Pull Requests from Others
  • Share code with Gists
  • Manage project defects or enhancement requests with GitHub Issues
  • Group related repositories together with GitHub Organizations

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Overall Score : 86 / 100

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Course Description

This course will comprehensively cover the GitHub hosting service as a companion to the Git source control tool, which means no prior knowledge or experience is required. Students will emerge at the end with a very solid understanding and hands-on experience with Git and GitHub.

Course Organization

The course is divided into four major components:

  • Introduction and Setup

  • Learning Git Source Control

  • All About GitHub

  • Bonuses

Each one of the above components spans multiple sections in this course.

New! Video explaining how to resolve Git breaking when upgrading macOS each year

Introduction

The Introduction provides a welcome to the course including some useful tips for getting the most out of taking the course and how the course is designed. That is followed by the Core Concepts which go over some critical theory before diving straight into Git.

After the introduction and core concepts, the first thing we do is a Quick Installation for both Windows and Mac. The Bonus section has a more comprehensive, step-by-step process for those that prefer it.

Learning Git Source Control

In The Basics, we walk through all the foundational commands needed to start a new project managed by Git (or enable Git for an existing project) all the way through making commits, including common file operations like moving and deleting files. We also cover how to exclude the wrong files from accidentally being committed and how to review your repository's history.

With a strong foundation in place, we explore some more Advanced Git 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

The main part of this course is all about GitHub. We will explore GitHub indepth from a source control hosting repository perspective.

In Welcome to GitHub we start off exploring some of the basic features of GitHub by creating a fresh repository and associate our local repository with it. Then, we prepare for the remainder of the course by setting up SSH Authentication, which we will use from this point forward. After that, we continue looking at the GitHub Repository, including many of the same operations we performed locally, but done directly within GitHub. Then in GitHub Repository Branches we dive into how Branches on GitHub and our local system work with each other.

After we have comprehensively covered how GitHub repositories work, we focus on how GitHub Tags and Releases work and their relationship with local tags in Git. We can then use tags/releases while Comparing Differences on GitHub.

We start tying things together in Social Coding where we join other projects on GitHub by forking and then submitting our contributions back using pull requests.

Once part of a team, you might use GitHub Issues to track defects or enhancement requests.

Sometimes you just need to share small parts of a file or a set of files, but don't want to bother with a full Git repository. That where GitHub Gists help out -- share just a snip of code or entire files.

Finally, group related GitHub repositories with GitHub Organizations and manage permissions and access using teams.

Bonuses

The bonuses sections and lectures provide additional information, more comprehensive instructions, or non-critical lectures.

Course Features

All tools have installation and configuration sections to ensure no one is left behind.
Presentations provide audio/video training of conceptual ideas. Since few like slide-ware presentations, slide-presentations are kept to a minimum.

Screencasts provide a video of the instructor's computer system with any actions, commands, or screens displayed and narrated. There is nearly 5 hours of screencast based video training in order to step through each command or action in sufficient detail.

All videos are available in high quality 1080p / Full HD resolution for sharp and clear viewing on modern desktops and tablets. 

Several attachments and document lectures throughout the course provide supplemental information, illustrations, or other reference material.

Moving Forward

This course will expand periodically to include more topics, supporting materials and bonus content! Some content may be in direct response to student feedback or discussions -- so get engaged with the course discussions feature!

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Instructor Details

Jason Taylor

With nearly 25 years of programming and software development experience, I started out teaching myself programming while in High School. I put myself through college working for a local Internet Service Provider as a programmer. Before finishing college, I developed and sold an award winning website to a Dot-Com start-up. After college, I have worked at several companies ranging from start-ups to large enterprises focusing on Java and client-side technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript). Throughout my career, I have opportunity to learn many software development best practices and exposure to several version control systems. 

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Reviews

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14,017 ratings on Udemy

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By Aravinth Ranganathan on 7/13/2026

I am working as a software developer for almost 7 years and I learned GIT on the flow and understood all these concepts, this is the first ever time I had a course on GIT. Jason have opened up a new perspective on the GIT that I ever know, I happy to understand them in a sequential fashion. The course is well constructed and can be easily grab the points even for a IT fresher. I was wondering what is there for 6.5 hours, but it totally worth the time spent in here. Thanks Jason

By Kev Leho on 2/15/2024

Great course with a very knowledgeable instructor. Liked the short length of each video and was very easy to follow along with the examples. Since this course was created there have been some changes, mainly to GitHub, but almost all of the content is still relevant and easy enough to follow along. If this course was updated having an intro to GitHub Actions would be useful.

By Ghomiel Higuit on 2/28/2023

I really liked how it was made easy to understand so much that I can share it with those that have little to no experience. Not to mention the line "No news is good news" convinces the users of GitHub to be more meticulous in their work that not everything you did will pass through and be confirmed as correct which is why it is always to do a double check on what has been done.

By Ragip Gashi on 3/26/2020

He explains so fast and so short. This course meant to be for beginners too, and I think there is to hard to follow all the commands and this fast way of explaining the things. Please do something and make it more easy to understand.

By Cristian Galli on 8/8/2019

In my opinion this is a good course for different reasons. Firstly, if English is not your first language but you can read it the videos have CC so you don't miss what the teacher is saying. Secondly, it's fast paced enough so you don't get bored. Note that this was good for me since I had already used git and github, and other tools like these, and I'm also a computer science student and programmer with some years of work, so I don't know how good it would be for someone with zero knowledge about these topics (although you can always pause the videos and watch them again). If you like other type of teaching you may prefere another course. Finally, the classes continue where the previous one left and are well organized.

By Aleksey Perfilyev on 7/24/2019

Awesome course! Jason is really good and highly experienced specialist. GitHub's web interface changed a little bit, as it was mentioned previously. So you have to explore the interface to find what Jason is explaining. Anyway, it's a very well thought course. I highly recommend it for anyone who is working as a developer, but know a little or nothing about git and github, or is trying to become it. Thank you Jason!

By Cheng Cui on 5/2/2019

Every tutorial was very rushed. There are no pause, no reflection, no summarizing , no quizzes, no reference materials to download, no notes, but errors and dumping of poorly made scripts witch lack of details and explanations of key concepts.

By Fabiano Dias Ferreira on 3/23/2019

Awesome course. Jason is always on point and organized. But there are just two small issues. - It's not a quick course. You will have to go back often until will assimilate how git and GitHub works. So it's mandatory that you annotate the relevant commands so you can practice with other files and projects. - GitHub web interface changed a little bit. So you have to explore the interface to find what Jason is teaching. You will loose a little more time with this. Anyway, it's a very well thought course, with very tight planning and very concise. I recomend it for anyone who is working as a web designer or Python programming.

By Igor Garabajiv on 1/9/2019

Good course. Helped me cement my understanding of Git. For me the breakthrough was visual representation of git work flow and 3 states before push. Solid take away of Diff & HEAD concepts. Suggestion to the author to do a better job explaining more Stash-ing, Stash pop, stash apply stash@{}, stash drop stash@{} and git cherry pick. Other than that it's a good course.

By Paul Valin on 6/19/2017

This is an excellent overview and survey of Git and Github for people who are new to the system. It moves quite fast at times, so be prepared to pause and backup if you need time to follow along 'in real life'. I would recommend this course to people who are new to Git; you'll end up with a very thorough overview of the application at the end of the course. My only suggestion would be to add some slideware to go over the differences between pulls, fetches, merges etc. enhanced with graphics and perhaps some flow diagrams. I've had to do some reading outside of this course to understand better those terms.

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