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

Produced in 2021

icon
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

icon
Quality Score

Content Quality
/
Video Quality
/
Qualified Instructor
/
Course Pace
/
Course Depth & Coverage
/

Overall Score : 88 / 100

icon
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!
Who this course is for:
  • Anyone interested in using source control and specifically Git and GitHub
  • Software engineers, developers, programmers new to Git or GitHub
  • IT Managers or technical leads considering Git or GitHub for version control on their team
  • Freelancers or other creative professionals

icon
Instructor Details

placeholder

With nearly 20 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.

icon
More courses by Jason Taylor

Git Going Fast: One Hour Git Crash Course

$11.99

Jenkins 2 Bootcamp: Fully Automate Builds to Deployment 2021

$11.99

Git Complete: The definitive, step-by-step guide to Git

$11.99

Git for Geeks: Quick Git Training for Developers

$11.99

Git Going with Comparing, Branching and Merging

$11.99

Git for Windows: Step-By-Step Mastery using Commands and GUI

$11.99

icon
More git courses

Starting with Git & GitHub

$11.99

Complete Git Guide: Understand and master Git and GitHub

$11.99

Git by Example

$11.99

Git for Absolute Beginners

$11.99

Git Smart: Enjoy Git in Unity, SourceTree & GitHub

$11.99

Git Github Gitkraken: Version Control without Command Line

$11.99

icon
Reviews

4.4

330 total reviews

5 star 4 star 3 star 2 star 1 star
% Complete
% Complete
% Complete
% Complete
% Complete

By Joey Fugere on 11/21/2020

Intressant, mais un peu rapide pour les exemples. Ncessite des pauses frquentes sur le vido.
Et je prfrerais des vidos un peu plus longs, les introductions sont un peu redondantes.

By Anshu Anu on 11/14/2020

Amazing, above expectations!

By Roy E Jensen on 11/14/2020

the fast pace really keeps me interested and hands-on, I learn quickest with active participation and this course focuses on an active participatory methodology.

By Richard Burton on 11/7/2020

teacher is running really quick through each module.

By Yingge Kong on 11/7/2020

Expensive and not worth to buy.

By Danielle Black on 11/7/2020

Clearly explained, no prior knowledge assumed, god pace, well laid out, easy to follow, sets expectations clearly, offers alternatives and stays on point.

By Robert McGinnis on 11/7/2020

A really good overview of how to use github. I thought a more developed set of samples would be more demonstrative but not worth removing a while star. All the basics are there in enough detail that anyone should be comfortable after going through the course.

By Steven Hansen on 11/7/2020

This is a great course and a great resource to have when learning git/github. It gave me the basis for being able to use git on a daily basis as well as a resource to come back to when I have forgotten something or need to remind myself how to use git. Even though it is a bit older and github has changed its layouts a bit it was still easy enough to figure out where I needed to go to figure it out.

By Joshua James Struthers on 11/7/2020

Really good course. It is nicely broken up into small videos that show 1 key idea or point. Makes it easy to go back and check videos later

By Priyanka Haibatti on 10/27/2020

GOOD

By Kallakuri Srikanth on 10/21/2020

good.

By jacob griner on 10/19/2020

pretty good so far